Leeds businessman receives record jail sentence over £2.2m recycling fraud
Man claimed he had collected and recycled electrical waste to falsely claim fees
A Leeds waste operator has been jailed for seven years and six...
Viridor says it is cutting plastic waste exports
Viridor, the biggest UK-owned recycling company, has announced that all its recyclable plastic waste will be reprocessed in the UK from next year as...
A window on recycling bid
A track record of leadership in sustainable manufacturing has helped Eurocell secure a place in the finals of an awards scheme.
The company has been...
Recession makes waste a great business to be in
Despite the gloom of the recession, it's refreshing to see glimmers of business success. Worcester based, nationally-operating company, Waste Efficiency Ltd, is determined that,...
Sorting technology boosts polymer purity at Viridor’s Avonmouth and Skelmersdale plants
Viridor has chosen the very latest in sensor-based sorting technology from TOMRA Recycling for two of its polymer recycling plants. 15 TOMRA AUTOSORT® units...
Cash calculator can cut costs on construction sites
WASTE processing expert and equipment supplier Worsley Plant has been showing customers affected by recent HMRC guidance how to save cash.
Its new savings calculator...
Pumps group presents circular economy seminar
The importance of the circular economy to the pump sector comes up for attention in a series of seminars taking place in Brussels in...
4M Euro order for state of the art biomass handling system in Sheffield
THE Saxlund Group has received an order from Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S, Denmark for the delivery of a state-of-the-art biomass handling system to...
Work underway on Severn Trent’s new £20m food waste plant in Spondon
Work is underway on Severn Trent’s new food waste and green gas plant at the company’s site in Spondon, Derby.
Severn Trent is investing around...
UK supermarket trials on-shelf smart refills
Lidl GB has become the first supermarket in the UK to give customers access to an on-shelf smart refill machine with ‘smart’ pouches for...
Recycled marine fuels innovator announces first sale of light bitumen
Ecoslops, which claims to be the first company to develop technology to produce recycled marine fuels from marine oil residues (‘slops’), has announced its...
120k tonnes of plastics available for recycling from UK HWRCs
Plastics resource efficiency and recycling charity, RECOUP, has released its 2023 Plastics Management and Recycling at Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) in the UK...
Become an insect farmer to turn muck into brass and help save the planet,...
A ‘how-to’ guide on the benefits of becoming an insect farmer was published by Zero Waste Scotland on 14 January.
"You won’t need acres of...
Modelling methane-eating bacteria holds promises for fuel and chemicals production
Nature is full of surprises – not to mention solutions. A research team including scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable...
Biorefinery handles recycle-resistant plant waste
A new process appears able to turn lignin into carbon sources that could be used in high-value, plant-derived pharmaceuticals and antioxidant nutraceuticals as well...
Plastic bag firm wins seal of approval for its UK manufacturing business
RPC bpi refuse is celebrating three major business wins across the healthcare, facilities management and cleaning sectors. The UK-based refuse sack manufacturer is estimating...
Which cities are leading the way in zero waste?
Many countries and cities are trying to reduce their usage of plastic, and to approach the ideal of "zero waste", but which ones are...
Recycling and reprocessing associations make a stand at RWM 2017, and declare “secondary is...
Visitors to RWM 2017 looking to gain an in-depth understanding of the UK's recycling, secondary materials and reprocessing capability, capacity and industry challenges should...
Navigating the ban on single-use plastics
By Samantha Osborne, Commercial lawyer at national law firm Freeths
With the ban on single use plastics now here, businesses must ensure that they understand...
Waste transfer site gets 1000th user
SIX weeks after the launch of edoc – a new online system for recording waste transfers - over 1000 businesses across the UK have...