Biffa is to spend £11 million on a 100-strong fleet of new vehicles to help provide household collections and street cleansing services in Manchester.

Bryson Recycling has been awarded a contract worth up to £15 million to continue processing household recycling from over 250,000 homes in Northern Ireland.

The manager of a Cambridgeshire recycling company who forged invoices to claim over £1.1 million in VAT repayments has been jailed for four years.

The government has launched the controversial sale process for the Green Investment Bank, inviting investors to purchase existing government shares and provide additional capital.

A Lancashire-based plastic carrier bag manufacturer has said that the five-pence carrier bag charge and ‘aggressive overseas competition’ has forced it into administration.

A state-backed Chinese enterprise and an American equity firm are among those interested in the £1 billion purchase of Biffa, according to reports in the media.

Biscuit producer Bahlsen LLP will donate £39,800 to environmental charities after breaching packaging compliance for 15 years.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a merger for the owner of Dennis Eagle, an app helping Derry residents to recycle, a WEEE collection event and this year's RECOUP Conference.

A Derbyshire waste firm has been made to pay £200,770 after a worker was crushed to death by the bucket of a motorised loading shovel.

Consumer goods company Unilever has announced that it is now sending zero non-hazardous waste to landfill across more than 600 sites, in 70 countries, including factories, warehouses, distribution centres and offices.