Natural Resources Wales has served an enforcement notice on the owners of bales of waste being stored at Swansea Docks, after months of complaints over their smell.

The Green Investment Bank could help restore investor confidence in green projects, but only if it isn’t ‘paralysed by the privatisation process’, according to speakers at an event exploring the risks of the sale of the bank.

A new anaerobic digestion plant for the Tomorrow’s Valley project local authorities in South Wales was opened by Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant yesterday.

The UK has a residual waste treatment capacity gap of 15 million tonnes per year, and this will never disappear despite contrary reports, says a study released by Biffa.

As government confirms it will scrap the pre-accreditation for the feed-in tariff, ADBA’s Charlotte Morton explains the potential benefits that anaerobic digestion can bring, and calls on government to increase (or reinstate) support for the industry.

The ADMIT BioSuccInnovate Consortium is to assess how agricultural waste products can be used to make biodegradable packaging.

The Department for Transport has awarded £25 million in funding to three projects creating biofuel from residual, whisky and forestry waste, to help decarbonise the transport sector.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change has launched a consultation proposing reduced tariffs and spending caps to control costs under the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) scheme.

Trade unions are calling on SITA Sembcorp UK to put a stop to ‘exploitative employment practices’ they claim to have witnessed at the Wilton 11 energy-from-waste development site in Teesside.

Beverage company Diageo has begun operating a second anaerobic digestion (AD) facility, this time at its Glendullan distillery in Scotland.