A new WRAP survey has revealed ‘significant growth’ within the UK’s anaerobic digestion sector, with overall operating capacity up 55 per cent.

Resource Minister Dan Rogerson has been appointed joint Ministerial Champion for the Bioeconomy, alongside Minister of State for Business, Enterprise and Energy, Matthew Hancock MP.

A round-up of business news from the resource sector, including Recolight, FCC Environment, Viridor, and Remondis.

FCC Medio Ambiente SA has been chosen as the preferred bidder for Edinburgh and Midlothian councils’ residual waste contract.

SITA UK’s incinerator in Great Blakenham has begun exporting power to the National Grid.

Defra is to investigate the possibility of introducing a regulatory treatment standard for refuse-derived fuel after consultation reveals ‘market failures’.

Viridor’s plans to build a 300,000-tonne incinerator in East Lothian are to progress after receiving funding approval from parent company Pennon Group.

The Secretary of State for Business, Vince Cable MP, has officially opened FCC Environment’s incineration facility in Lincoln.

Eunomia warns that waste recovery infrastructure could limit UK recycling rates to 66 per cent in 2030, and calls for a halt to funding for incineration.

Local authorities in Northern Ireland sent less than half of municipal waste to landfill in the last financial year, a record low for the country.