Human waste could provide enough energy to power Indonesia, Brazil and Ethopia combined, according to a UN University report released this week.

Trade unions are calling on SITA Sembcorp UK to put a stop to ‘exploitative employment practices’ they claim to have witnessed at the Wilton 11 energy-from-waste development site in Teesside.

Planning applications for shale gas exploration will be subject to a new dedicated planning process that aims to deliver faster decision-making, the government has announced.

National environmental charities have written to David Cameron expressing concern that 10 environmental policies have been ‘cancelled or weakened’ in the first months of his new government.

Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole councils have published a new draft Waste Plan that outlines the local sustainable waste management strategy for the next 15 years.

SUEZ environnement’s £180-million incinerator in Great Blakenham, Suffolk, has been officially opened by the Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk, Clare, Countess of Euston.

An inquest into the death of a man who was killed in an industrial shredder at MID UK Recycling’s Grantham facility in Lincolnshire, has ruled the incident as ‘accidental’.

Plans by Peel Environmental to develop a £65-million Timber Resource Recovery Centre in Barnsley have been given the green light by Barnsley Council.

Norfolk County Council will continue sending its residual waste to Suffolk County Council’s Great Blakenham incinerator until 2020, while it considers a ‘sustainable long-term solution’ for its waste.

As incineration becomes increasingly popular, Geert Cuperus from the European Recovered Fuel Organisation (ERFO) outlines the difference between SRF and RDF and the need for standardisation.