As a huge year for resources kicks off with a plastics-heavy 25 Year Environment Plan, INCPEN CEO Paul Vanston talks to Edward Perchard about deposits, PRNs, Attenborough and how effective collaboration will pave the way for a greener future.

Martin Hargreaves, Managing Director of Plastipak Europe, gives an update on the recycled PET plastic market.

The Insider asks what the UK's producer responsibility system has actually delivered since its inception 20 years ago.

Food waste management company Biogen has completed the acquisition of Tamar Energy, one of the largest anaerobic digestion facility owners and operators in the UK, further expanding its network of food waste recycling facilities.

Our annual power list of movers and shakers in the waste and resources industry attracted a record number of votes this year. Here, you’ll find the winners from 100 to one, each accompanied by a voter’s glowing review. Read on to discover who has played their cards right and proved to be our Top Trump for 2018

Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) is accepting evidence for an inquiry into the government’s 25 Year Environment Plan, to scrutinise its proposals and how they will be enacted.

Carpet Recycling UK could be on track to meet its ambitious 60 per cent diversion rate by 2020 as the total volume of carpet waste diverted from landfill reached 42 per cent in 2017.

A new plastic recycling facility has been given the go-ahead in Warwickshire after Beauparc Utilities chose the UK site instead of Dublin, reportedly due to permit delays in Ireland and the urgent need for capacity.

Derry City and Strabane District Council in Northern Ireland has adopted a new economic strategy aimed at transitioning the region to a zero waste circular economy, with the potential to save up to £3 million a year as a result.

Resources Minister Therese Coffey says that she ‘challenges the view’ that the Chinese ban on waste imports presents a crisis for the UK, but suggested that dramatic rules on packaging could be on the way.