Viridor has agreed to send air pollution control residues from its incineration facilities to Carbon8 Aggregates Ltd for recycling.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources industry, including tyre recycling, EWWR Awards, LitterARTI, and fly-tipping prosecutions.

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the measures it should implement in its revised Circular Economy Package to bring about sustainability.

BBC Countryfile has highlighted the problem of green waste contamination in its latest episode, leading the Organics Recycling Group to call for better education on proper green waste disposal.

As incineration becomes increasingly popular, Geert Cuperus from the European Recovered Fuel Organisation (ERFO) outlines the difference between SRF and RDF and the need for standardisation.

Dounreay Site Restoration Limited has begun storing low-level radioactive waste from Dounreay Power Plant in new vaults at Caithness, Scotland.

The Environment Agency has published new technical guidance on classifying and assessing waste, ahead of changes to the List of Waste and Hazardous Waste criteria, which will apply from June.

Up to 90 per cent of the world’s waste electronic and electrical equipment is illegally traded or dumped, according to the United Nations Environment Programme.

Dr Stuart McLanaghan of environmental consultancy Eden 21 argues for a new resource hierarchy, explaining why we need new metrics for resource use.

We might pay for our meals in gourmet restaurants with plastic, but how would you feel about eating something that’s fed on plastic? Leonie Butler reports