The Environment Agency has released new guidelines on the production of fire prevention plans for waste and recycling sites, which it believes will help reduce the incidence of fires. But what do they mean for recycling businesses?

A group of 36 national and European associations has called for the Circular Economy Package to recognise the function of packaging and safeguard the free movement of packaging in the EU’s internal market.

Councils are being unfairly criticised in the fallout to a sharp rise of household recycling contamination, according to local authority membership organisation LARAC.

Prominent chefs including Ed Baines and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall have called on Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to ban polystyrene packaging to improve London’s recycling and protect marine life.

The number of materials facilities reporting input and output sampling figures has again dropped according to data published by the Waste & Resources Action Programme.

A fire that broke out at a West Midlands recycling plant after recycled foam insulation overheated after processing is one of four to have taken place at waste sites in the past two days.

Lamp recycling has almost doubled in the last five years, according to figures released this summer, with Recolight, the UK’s largest lamp recycling scheme, recycling almost one lamp every second.

A report due later this year will ‘explore how the UK can move from creating waste to valuing resources’.

A partnership has developed new technology to extract unused paint with an industrial vacuum cleaner, with the companies behind it hoping that the process will ensure progress towards a circular economy.

Dr Colin Church will take over as CEO of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management when Steve Lee steps down in October.