A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector including a job-saving takeover of Gelpack, new capacity for Novamont and more community funding from Veolia.

The Environment Agency is to review the cost of its permits and business charges after launching a public consultation.

Cutbacks planned by waste firm Viridor could lead to some 100 employees working in mechanical biological treatment facilities across Greater Manchester being served redundancy notices in a bid to cut costs.

Resources & Waste UK, a joint organisation designed to provide a unified voice for the waste industry, has been stopped by its partners CIWM and the ESA following the retirement of Director General Steve Lee.

A fire that broke out on Monday at Peter Bacon Recycling in King’s Lynn, Norfolk is expected to keep burning for three more days as fire crews attempt to put it out.

The argument over the future of the UK’s residual waste treatment capacity has reopened today, after the ESA published a review of previous reports and reiterated the prediction that six million tonnes of residual waste will have nowhere to go in the UK by 2030.

Thatchers Cider has contracted Middleton Engineering to install a baler system at its Somerset base to deal with waste at source.

The new Chair of LARAC has been revealed as Carole Taylor, who will be taking over the position in January 2018.

European waste management firm SUEZ has signed a joint venture agreement with plastics manufacturer LyondellBasell that will see ‘high-quality circular polymers’ created for packaging from plastic waste from across Europe.

A waste director from Leicester has been disqualified for failing to ensure that his company maintained its books and records.