The Environment Agency has urged the public to be aware of the signs of waste crime as a man is fined £4,800 for illegally storing hazardous waste.

Totternhoe Metal Recycling Limited has been fined £12,000 after a man delivering scrap metal was injured when trapped by a crane.

Zero Waste Scotland is offering commercial and third-sector organisations awards of up to £100,000 to trial collections for remanufacture and reuse.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs is calling on members of the waste industry to respond to a consultation on its revised Waste Duty of Care Code of Practice.

Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service and County Council have called for tighter regulation and planning controls for recycling plants, after seeing 40 site fires in the last five years.

The Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation has commissioned Resource Futures to undertake ascertain ‘the real aluminium packaging recycling figure’, as reporting levels dip.

The Department for Communities and Local Government has upheld its rejection of Veolia’s New Barnfield incinerator following High Courts’ reassessment ruling.

Business Secretary Sajid Javid has announced plans to cut £10 billion of ‘unnecessary’ regulation, including that for the waste sector, over the next five years.

Data measuring the input and output of material recovery facilities across England and Wales has been published for the first time today by WRAP.

Plans for the Tees Renewable Energy Plant, said to be the largest biomass power station in the UK, are close to being finalised after the project secured international investment.