Veolia wins South London waste partnership contract
Resource management firm Veolia, through its subsidiary Veolia ES UK, has signed a major new recycling and waste services contract spanning four South London...
15-month jail sentence for Stockport company owner who mismanaged waste sites
A waste criminal whose actions caused a closure of the M60 and significant pollution to a river in Stockport was on 31 March...
Brexit offers a chance to rethink waste policy, says thinktank
In a new report, Going Round in Circles, UK think tank Policy Exchange says that Brexit presents a huge opportunity for the UK Government...
New ‘Green’ waste site applications down 20% in a year as local authority spending...
The number of planning applications to build new environmentally-friendly waste management sites has dropped by 20% in a year, to 189 in 2015/16 from...
Solar park in Swindon to power household waste recycling centre
Building work has started at Barnfield Solar Park, Swindon, which will be connected directly by private wire to the Swindon household waste recycling centre...
Averies brothers convicted after notorious major fires and abandoned waste site
Company Director Lee Averies received three 12-month prison sentences to run concurrently by Swindon Crown Court on Thursday 27 October, for inadequate management of...
Airflow-based technology to provide Australia’s first automated waste collection system for a municipal area
Australia is to see its first underground waste collection system installed in Queensland. The work is part of a major redevelopment programme that will...
First National Recycling Guidelines published by WRAP, promising an end to householder confusion
A definitive list of what can and cannot be accepted for recycling at the roadside was published by WRAP on 12 October.
The Recycling...
GIB invests £28m in Edinburgh EfW plant
UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) has today committed £28m of debt finance to a new £142m energy-from-waste (EfW) plant at Millerhill in Midlothian,...
Serious pollution and emissions cut at regulated sites, says EA
Serious pollution incidents across England have fallen by 56% since 2000 thanks to the work of Environment Agency and its partners, reports out on...
Experts address plastic waste at London Design Festival
The Plasticity Forum was held on 21 September as part of the London Design Festival to help bring the design community into the big...
SEPA statistics reveal recycling increase in Scotland in 2015
Official statistics were issued on 20 September by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) which show that Local Authorities in Scotland have recycled 44.3%...
RWM promises lively debate on circular economy policy
At RWM 2016 in Birmingham, 13 - 15 September, all eyes promise to be on the Circular Economy Connect theatre where senior leaders across...
84% rise in material rejected by council recycling facilities, says BBC report
A BBC Freedom of Information request has turned up data showing a sudden and dramatic rise – of 84% - in the amount of...
Starbucks fined £160k for leaving rubbish on streets
Two Starbucks on Berkeley Street were fined over £160,000 on Wednesday (10 August) after repeatedly leaving rubbish bags on a busy central London pavement.
Since...
A route to more effective waste collection in Rotterdam
The Internet of Things, big data and analytics offer the promise of better business decision making. Finnish sensors developer Enevo is one firm leveraging...
Co-mingled collections only work when supplying top-quality MRFs, says resource recovery firm
Co-mingled collections are the way forward for councils needing to reduce costs and increase capture of dry recyclables to improve their kerbside recycling rates,...
Proprietary push floor technology selected for UK waste-to-energy gasification plant
Bouygues Energies & Services, the company responsible for the engineering and construction of the UK’s largest waste-to-energy gasification plant currently underway at Hoddesdon in...
Can your town become a zero waste town? Zero Waste Scotland seeks candidates for...
Environmentally-focused communities across Scotland are being urged to apply for the title of Scotland’s third Zero Waste Town, by demonstrating how their efforts could...
Smart waste collection gets Gartner thumbs up
FINNISH smart waste management firm Enevo announced in early July that it has been named a “Cool Vendor” based on the May 13, 2016...
