A response to the ‘urgent problem’ of Chinese restrictions on imports of paper and plastic wastes will need to focus on quality and markets, WRAP CEO Marcus Gover has told trade associations and Defra in an open letter.

A new code of practice for the refuse derived fuel (RDF) [http://resource.co/article/difference-between-rdf-and-srf-10156] market has been published today to set out a framework that shares good practice across the industry in an attempt to increase the confidence of customers and regulators in RDF processes and products.

Novelis, world leader in aluminium production and recycling, has released its 2017 Sustainability Report, showing an increase in recycled content but more waste going to landfill.

A man has been killed following an incident with a moving vehicle at an EGGER chipboard production and recycling plant in East Ayrshire, Scotland.

The director of North-West recycler Fresco Environmental has been given a suspended jail sentence after a worker was crushed to death by a falling bale of carpet last year.

The extent of the incredible change in technology and how it is recycled in the 10 years since UK WEEE regulations were introduced, has been detailed by the European Recycling Platform.

Waste associations have written to Resources Minister Therese Coffey calling on Defra to "take urgent action" to support the recycling industry following China’s ban on the import of all scrap plastics and unsorted waste paper.

Prevention and recycling must underpin the EU’s plastics strategy to reduce marine plastics pollution, according to EU Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella.

Increased refurbishment and remanufacture in the European furniture sector could create up to 157,000 jobs and save around six million tonnes of CO2 emissions, according to a study by the European Environmental Bureau.

Over half of the UK’s population wants to know more about what their recycling gets turned into, leading WRAP to using Recycle Week to highlight the transformation of household products.