Thatchers Cider has contracted Middleton Engineering to install a baler system at its Somerset base to deal with waste at source.

The government’s Industrial Strategy white paper has been welcomed by the waste and resources industry along with calls for collaboration going forward.

European waste management firm SUEZ has signed a joint venture agreement with plastics manufacturer LyondellBasell that will see ‘high-quality circular polymers’ created for packaging from plastic waste from across Europe.

A waste director from Leicester has been disqualified for failing to ensure that his company maintained its books and records.

An agreement between members of the Unite union and Birmingham City Council will see over 100 refuse collection staff keep their jobs after five months of industrial action.

The government wants to position the UK as a world leader in maximising the value we extract from our resources, strengthening the market for secondary materials and moving towards a more circular economy, its new Industrial Strategy has said.

Major European apparel retailers and suppliers will receive guidance on introducing innovative solutions to reuse textile leftovers and reduce wastage, as part of the ECAP programme.

Perth, Leith and central Edinburgh have been selected as the locations for the latest round of Scotland’s Zero Waste Towns project and will share nearly £900,000 of funding to further Zero Waste principles in these areas.

REPIC has funded a joint research project with researchers at the University of Lancaster to analyse data on WEEE flows to improve collection rates and forecasting in order to shape electronic waste recycling policy in the UK.

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