Hadfield Wood Recyclers has donated 180 trees to the charity Manchester City of Trees following a pledge it made at the CIWM Presidential Dinner.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector including a job-saving takeover of Gelpack, new capacity for Novamont and more community funding from Veolia.

The Environment Agency is to review the cost of its permits and business charges after launching a public consultation.

Cutbacks planned by waste firm Viridor could lead to some 100 employees working in mechanical biological treatment facilities across Greater Manchester being served redundancy notices in a bid to cut costs.

An employee at a Cheshire plastic recycling company had to have his arm amputated after his jumper got caught in a machine.

Resources & Waste UK, a joint organisation designed to provide a unified voice for the waste industry, has been stopped by its partners CIWM and the ESA following the retirement of Director General Steve Lee.

A fire that broke out on Monday at Peter Bacon Recycling in King’s Lynn, Norfolk is expected to keep burning for three more days as fire crews attempt to put it out.

The argument over the future of the UK’s residual waste treatment capacity has reopened today, after the ESA published a review of previous reports and reiterated the prediction that six million tonnes of residual waste will have nowhere to go in the UK by 2030.

By 2050 the fashion industry will use up a quarter of the world’s carbon budget, a new report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and backed by Stella McCartney claims, calling for a New Textiles Economy and ambitious change to stop the problem in its tracks.

Shoppers will be given a simpler, more consistent range of storage and date advice on food packaging after new WRAP guidance presented a new industry standard for date labelling and storage advice used by food manufacturers and retailers.