Cycle Link UK has chosen London Gateway as its home port to export paper for recycling, reducing road transport needs.

The European Union has published the new WEEE Directive in issue L197 of the Official Journal. EU Members States now have until January 2014 to transpose it into national legislation.

The Environment Minister Lord Taylor of Holbeach has today (25 July) proposed new guidance for UK businesses to report sustainability credentials.

The government’s response to the consultation on the Renewables Obligation Banding Review, setting out support levels for renewable electricity technologies for the period 2013 to 2017, was published today (25 July)

PRIME, a pan-European consortium comprising ten partners, has announced a project to engineer high-value products from low-grade, mixed plastic waste through the development of a cost-effective, flexible moulding technology.

A final report by the West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership (MRWS) has been released (19 July) that sets out considerations needed to be taken into account should the plans for a nuclear waste store in the area go ahead.

MPs on the Energy and Climate Change Committee have said the Treasury have made the government’s draft Energy Bill ‘unworkable’ and could pose companies with an ‘unacceptable’ level of risk.

Plans for the UK’s largest deep-geothermal heat plant have been announced by GT Energy.

Burdens has launched the UK’s first small-scale commercial anaerobic digestion (AD) system for food waste.

SAICA will exhibit their new containerboard mill at RWM in September.