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.

Gravesham Borough Council has received a £100,000 reward from Kent County Council after increasing its recycling rates by 10 per cent in a year.

Data measuring the input and output of material recovery facilities across England and Wales has been published for the first time today by WRAP.

A former Director of Dalkeith Demolition Limited has been fined £700 after being found guilty of breaching the conditions of a waste management licence.

Cabinet members of Oxfordshire County Council will vote next Tuesday (21 July) on a consultation that recommends closing a number of its household waste recycling centres.

A scrutiny report into the roll out of Dorset Waste Partnership’s county-wide ‘Recycle for Dorset’ scheme has found that no major problems persist with the service.

The House of Commons formally appoints 10 MPs to serve on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee for the 2015 parliament, alongside Chairman Neil Parish.

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.

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

AmeyCespa will be awarded a 25-year contract to manage waste on the Isle of Wight following a vote by the council’s Executive Committee this week.