Jack Moody Recycling Ltd has been ordered to pay £100,000 after one of its employees had to have both legs amputated below the knee following an incident with moving machinery in December 2014.

The owner of Swindon-based company Melksham Metals must pay back £2 million he made from illegal waste activities or face eight years in prison.

Compliance specialist Ecosurety and software start-up Dsposal have joined the Resource Association as affiliate members.

Digital waste company Winnow has sealed $7.4 million (£5.6 million) in growth capital to fund the further development of its Waste Monitor app helping commercial and residential kitchens monitor and cut their food waste.

The GMWDA has started looking for a new contractor for Greater Manchester, following the breakdown of its landmark PFI contract last month.

The government has responded to EFRA’s ‘Food Waste in England’ report and acknowledges that while more needs to be done to tackle food waste, a mandatory approach is not currently being considered for England.

Cory Riverside Energy has dismissed reports in the national press that its East London Belvedere incinerator has been put up for sale by the company's owners for more than £1 billion, a decision that some outlets have suggested could start a bidding war among Chinese suitors.

The award recognises innovation in tackling consumer waste and ocean plastic through the partnership of consumer giant Proctor & Gamble and recycling and waste companies TerraCycle and SUEZ.

Buses on the city’s new MetroBus route could be powered using bio-fuel made from food waste, bosses of FirstGroup revealed this week.

Amey has appointed Simon Houlahan as Business Director to oversee its environmental services accounts in the South of England.