The owner of a waste tyre business has been handed a suspended prison sentence after illegally disposing of almost 85,000 tyres in Devon.

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

Waste operators will need to pay £84.40 for every tonne of waste disposed of at landfill from 1 April 2016, the Finance (No.2) Bill has revealed.

A round-up of business news from the waste and resources industry, including Resource Futures, Allerton Waste Recovery Park, Welland Bio Power Plant, and more…

The UK Green Investment Bank has invested £28.25 million in a ‘first of a kind’ materials recovery facility and gasification plant in Forth, Scotland.

The UK Green Investment Bank’s interventions in the UK waste sector ‘risk hindering the country’s efforts to increase recycling’, warns Eunomia.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources industry, including Novelis, ACE UK, Pledge4Plastics, and O2 Recycle.

A roundtable event looking back on the changes brought in by the recast of the WEEE Directive was hosted by REPIC at the Houses of Parliament earlier this week.

Industry stakeholders urgently call on retailers to switch back to using recycled plastic packaging, as the market experiences ‘unprecedented challenges’.

The EC must make better use of its Ecodesign Directive if it is to address unsustainable resource consumption and bring about a circular economy, says the European Environmental Bureau.