Crime doesn’t pay for owner who rented waste sites

A landowner was ordered to hand over £207,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act for rent payments he received from illegally operated waste sites. Kevin...

The new wave of interest

THE UK Government has launched its £20m scheme that will support two pre-commercial projects to demonstrate the operation of wave and/or tidal devices in...
Reconomy

Waste outed

Reconomy, a broker in outsourced waste management and recycling, has been chosen by the Enterprise Group to handle its waste management procurement processes. The £1...
Ovivo, West Bromwich

Doubled up

WATER industry specialist Ovivo has almost doubled the size of its operation at its UK head office in West Bromwich in an expansion that...

Who’s calling?

MORE than 10,000 calls have been handled by the Environment Agency’s 24-hour incident hotline to report environmental incidents over the last 12 months. Calls from...
Landfill

Lagging on landfill

THE UK has been praised for “drastically reducing” the amount of municipal waste it sends to landfill. But it still lags behind the top...