The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management and the Environmental Services Association will launch a new joint entity, Resources & Waste UK.

Waste management firm SiteServ (now in administration) has been fined £11,000 for illegally exporting waste.

Natural Resources Wales has opened a consultation on Clean Power (UK) Limited’s application to operate a pyrolysis plant in Carmarthenshire.

Stakeholders are being asked to respond to a consultation on changes to the waste classification and assessment guidance.

The owner of car breaking company JT Recovery Services has been handed a suspended 10-month prison sentence for running an illegal waste site.

The London Waste and Recycling Board is calling on those wishing to build waste projects in London to apply to its £20-million infrastructure fund.

The Environment Agency has launched a new online tool to help business determine when waste reaches by-product or product status.

Greenwich-based waste firm Murphys (Waste) Ltd has been fined £6,000 after ‘repeatedly putting its employees at risk of injury, or even death’.

Viridor’s £12.5-million plastics recycling facility in Rochester has been officially opened by Mayor of Medway, Councillor Barry Kemp.

Work has begun on developing Courtauld 2025, a new, 10-year framework that aims to boost resource efficiency in the food and drink sector.