Gemma Stapeley, former Head of Recycling at Aylesford Newsprint, has been appointed Interim Commercial Manager at DS Smith’s recycling division.

Landfill tax has risen to £82.60 and loss-on-ignition testing is now in effect, as the UK enters a new tax year.

Simon Weston, the Director of Raw Materials at the Confederation of Paper Industries, has been appointed to Defra’s Advisory Committee on Packaging.

The founder of plastics reprocessing company ECOPlastics Recycling, Jonathan Short, has left the company, just three months after it was bought out.

The Resource Association is calling on the next government to implement a new Resource Management and Circular Economy Act to improve resource efficiency and waste policy.

Chris Dow, Chief Executive of plastics reprocessing company Closed Loop Recycling, has said that the company will “inevitably go into administration” without government or industry support.

The Business Secretary Vince Cable has officially opened Ward Recycling Ltd’s new glass clean-up extension at its Middlesbrough recycling facility.

US-based Red Brick Brewing Company has adopted Novelis’ high-recycled content aluminium can sheet, evercan™.

A new poll by YouGov has found that the majority of UK adults would pay more for milk if it came in recycled plastic packaging, and think government should set minimum standards for recycled content.

The director of electrical goods shipping firm Bakour Limited has been given a suspended prison sentence for attempting to illegal export WEEE.