Business Secretary Sajid Javid has announced plans to cut £10 billion of ‘unnecessary’ regulation, including that for the waste sector, over the next five years.

A round-up of waste and resources news, including a food waste Visionary, litter action, and whales swimming in plastic bottles.

Glasgow Airport has increased its recycling rate to over 90 per cent after implementing Zero Waste Scotland’s Resource Efficiency Pledge.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has published a report to help people understand activities that produce radioactive wastes in the UK.

Plans for the Tees Renewable Energy Plant, said to be the largest biomass power station in the UK, are close to being finalised after the project secured international investment.

Energy-from-waste firm Shanks Group plc opened London Stock Exchange yesterday, after listing the first retail offering on London Stock Exchange’s ‘green market’.

Nine companies have received a share of £6-million funding from the Department of Energy & Climate Change to test heat network projects across the UK.

Recycling company Neales Waste Management will move to CementirHolding’s Nordic & Baltic division, as part of a company group restructure.

ArcelorMittal, LanzaTech, and Primetals Technologies have announced that they are to build ‘Europe’s first-ever commercial-scale production facility to create bioethanol from waste gases produced during the steelmaking process’.

SUEZ environnement’s £180-million incinerator in Great Blakenham, Suffolk, has been officially opened by the Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk, Clare, Countess of Euston.