Allerton Waste Recovery Park in North Yorkshire has recently been declared operational and claims it will reduce the amount of waste to landfill in the county by 90 per cent.

Plans for a groundbreaking ‘waste-to-chemistry’ facility in Rotterdam to recycle waste into methanol are moving forwards after the project received £8 million of funding.

In the wake of concerns from the Environment Agency that hazardous waste wood is being wrongly classified, the Wood Recyclers Association has published a best practice guide for reporting hazardous waste.

An auction is underway for the UK’s largest energy-from-waste (EfW) plant in London, set to be sold for £1.5 billion or higher.

An employee of Anglo Recycling Ltd was injured in unguarded machinery leading to an £8,000 fine for the textile recycling company.

EU ambassadors have endorsed the provisional agreement on the four legislative proposals that make up the Circular Economy Package, including a target of a 60 per cent municipal recycling rate.

As China’s import restrictions see levels of waste plastic rise in the UK, Keith Freegard, Director of Axion Polymers, argues that low-grade materials should be landfilled rather than burnt for energy.

More than three million tonnes of waste electrical and electronic equipment have now been collected and treated across Europe by the European Recycling Platform since its foundation in 2002.

A new partnership between Binn Group and Earnside Energy has been established to provide an integrated food waste collection and treatment service in Scotland.

Anthony Sant, Sales & Marketing Director at AO Recycling, gives an update on the recycling of white goods.