Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond is set to announce a public consultation on a plastics tax, along with a £20-million innovation fund to develop alternatives to the problem material.

Liverpool charity CREATE UK has received £25,000 of government funding to recycle and reuse discarded white goods.

There has been good news for investors in the UK anaerobic digestion market. Foresight Group explains how to finance AD plants and grow organisations.

Swindon-based Recycling Technologies Ltd, which turns waste plastic into a crude oil equivalent, has appointed two new non-executive directors to its leadership board.

Allerton Waste Recovery Park in North Yorkshire has recently been declared operational and claims it will reduce the amount of waste to landfill in the county by 90 per cent.

The government has offered “warm words” but “no real action” today (9 March) in response to the report by the Environmental Audit Committee on disposable coffee cup waste, according to the committee’s Chair Mary Creagh.

New waste crime powers have been approved by the National Assembly for Wales to prevent access to problem waste sites and force operators to remove illegally-dumped waste.

Progress on the EU’s Plastics Strategy continues unabated as Europe’s environment ministers reached agreement on the content of the strategy at a meeting of the Environment Council on Monday (5 March).

China has announced the launch of a new customs crackdown on the smuggling of foreign waste, entitled ‘Blue Sky 2018’, which will run from March to December 2018.

Plans for a groundbreaking ‘waste-to-chemistry’ facility in Rotterdam to recycle waste into methanol are moving forwards after the project received £8 million of funding.