Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers expressed her desire to see the Environment Bill continue its passage through Parliament despite the forthcoming general election.

Natural Resources Wales warns landowners to be wary of requests to store waste on their land.

The government’s ban on plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds is due to come into force in April 2020.

The Environment Agency (EA) has published its annual Regulating for People, Environment and Growth (RPEG) report.

The Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) has become a guarantor for the On-Pack Recycling Label (OPRL) scheme.

The Environmental Audit Committee has written to Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers stating that some aspects of the government’s Environment Bill are ‘not fit for purpose’.

A round-up of business news from the waste and resources sector, including Winnow, Collard Group, Novamont, ACE and WasteCare.

Thornton’s Budgens launches a plastic-free range of 200 products including refillable peanut butter, milk and orange juice.

An UNTHA XR3000C mobil-e shredder is helping a new waste plant to transform AD and blood plastics into a clean secondary material for remanufacturing.

Provisional packaging data for the third quarter of 2019 shows that all packaging materials remain on track to meet their 2019 recycling targets, with plastics and aluminium staging recoveries.