The Green Investment Bank will create a ‘special share’ in the company as part of the process to introduce private capital to the bank, the government announced yesterday.

A bill that could ban the incineration of recyclable material is to become law after being passed by the National Assembly for Wales yesterday (2 February).

Waste treatment company Clean Power Properties has suffered two setbacks to proposed waste gasification and pyrolysis developments in Corby and Carmarthenshire in the past week.

The Environment Agency has significantly missed targets to cut down on high-risk illegal waste sites in England, instead seeing an increase of 19 per cent since April 2014.

The Joint Trade Association has been chosen to operate the UK’s waste electrical and electronic equipment compliance fee mechanism for 2015, the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills has announced.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a change at the top of the EAC, a new WISH website and Environment Agency landfill training.

A second reading to Parliament of the Food Waste (Reduction) Bill has been postponed until 4 March after urgent questions took precedence in the House of Commons agenda.

The amount of household waste sent to landfill in Northern Ireland has dropped below 100,000 tonnes despite an increase in the total waste collected and a slight drop in recycling.

A group including four former chairs of UK environment agencies has written to Environment Secretary Liz Truss highlighting the risks to the environment if Britain leaves the EU.

Ray Georgeson, delivering the 2016 Kit Strange Memorial Lecture, yesterday called for more united lobbying by recycling industries and ‘an active and enabling state’ to improve the sector’s prospects.