Southampton-based Princess Cruises has been ordered to pay a £31-million penalty for illegal dumping of contaminated oil waste off the English coast.

Firefighters are this morning continuing to fight a fire at a hazardous waste facility operated by Remondis after it broke out on Sunday morning.

More than 50 firefighters and a dozen fire engines were called out to tackle a major fire at New Earth Solutions’s Gloucestershire recycling facility on Friday.

Waste management company Biffa has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of driving dangerously around collection vehicles.

Bywater’s has begun a five-year contract for the Parliamentary Estate, with the aim of increasing recycling rates and aiding sustainability efforts.

Collection crew operatives have been injured and one hospitalised overnight after an Urbaser collection vehicle overturned on the M27.

Interserve has been served a notice of termination to its contract with Viridor after ‘continually and repeatedly’ failing to meet milestones on its Glasgow gasification plant.

Sustainability consultancy Resource Futures has announced that it has been certified as a B Corp, part of a global movement to put more emphasis on social and environmental responsibility in business.

The situation surrounding the sale of New Earth Solutions Group has seen the company avoid a fine of £1.3 million after the asphyxiation death of a worker in 2014.

Evolve Polymers, one of the largest plastics recyclers in Europe, has been sold to US-based Plastipak Packaging.