The Environment Agency’s packaging producer responsibility monitoring plan 2020 has dropped its planned number of site inspections of accredited operators to 110 from 160 in 2019.

A new report from the Environmental Services Association (ESA), produced by Eunomia Research and Consulting, has concluded that local authorities in England that contract out their waste services achieve higher recycling rates than in-house services.

A round-up of business news from the waste and resources industry, including Enva, FEAD, UK Container Maintenance, Bryson Recycling and OPRL.

Scottish waste management firm Binn Group has submitted revised plans to build a £70-million energy-from-waste (EfW) plant at Binn EcoPark near Glenfarg in Perth and Kinross.

Two brothers have received custodial sentences for submitting fictitious claims for £1.46 million of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).

The manager of a waste transfer station has been given a 12-month suspended sentence for running an illegal waste site in Torpoint, Cornwall.

J&B Recycling has unveiled a brand refresh to reflect how far the company has changed since its establishment some 20 years ago.

Environmental behaviour change charity Hubbub has launched a new campaign in Manchester as part of its ambition to double the uptake of reusable cups.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources industry, including Viridor, B&M Waste, PowerHouse Energy, Re-Gen Waste and Vanden Recycling.

The UK’s first waste-to-hydrogen plant using technology developed by Powerhouse Energy Group has secured funding for the next stage of its development at its site in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.