Dean Hislop, Chief Executive of Tamar Energy, urges local authorities to maintain or expand food waste recycling services, rather than making short-sighted cuts that could result in long-term pain.

The European Commission is working on an energy-from-waste communication that will address how the process can be optimised without compromising higher reuse and recycling rates, says European Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella.

Environmental groups have called for the next Mayor of London to harmonise the 20 different recycling systems across London as part of its Greener London movement.

Exports of refuse-derived fuel from England and Wales grew by over half a million tonnes in 2015, according to the RDF Industry Group.

Two recent discoveries at universities in the UK and Australia could result in more efficient biofuel production and anaerobic digestion processes.

A plant that developers say can process unsorted household waste, creating biogas and separated plastic and metals for recycling, is to be built by in Cheshire.

The Green Investment Bank will create a ‘special share’ in the company as part of the process to introduce private capital to the bank, the government announced yesterday.

Waste treatment company Clean Power Properties has suffered two setbacks to proposed waste gasification and pyrolysis developments in Corby and Carmarthenshire in the past week.

The US Navy has begun deploying its ‘Great Green Fleet’, powered in part by an alternative fuel made from waste beef fat

A third of London’s buses will be running on cleaner-burning diesel made in part from waste fats and oils by March, after two operators signed deals with biodiesel producer Argent Energy.