The waste and resources industry has issued a cautiously positive response to the Autumn Budget, which included a call for evidence on a single-use plastics tax and extra funding for the Environment Agency to tackle waste crime.

Chancellor Philip Hammond has launched a call for evidence for a single-use plastics tax and committed an extra £30 million to the Environment Agency to tackle waste crime in his Autumn Budget Statement.

Finnish start-up Sulapac has won the 2017 Green Alley Award for its innovative alternative packaging for cosmetics products.

Nigel Lee, General Manager at Amur, says that anaerobic digestion plants need to work harder to improve gas yields if they are to achieve their budgeted income.

A 23-year-old man has died after falling into an industrial baler at a waste and recycling plant in Redruth, Cornwall.

A new collaboration between bio-bean and Shell is producing biofuel from coffee waste to help power London’s bus network.

China has raised the contamination limit on waste imports to 0.5 per cent, still some way below the current 1.5 per cent limit.

Two people have been arrested after a recycling plant in East London was raided by anti-slavery police last week as part of a week of action looking into labour exploitation in the capital.

Bringing in contract staff, paying overtime and lost revenue from missed recycling collections have seen costs incurred by Birmingham City Council during this summer’s bin strike rise to £6.6 million.

The Chancellor is set to introduce a call for evidence regarding a potential tax on the use of single-use plastics in order to reduce the flow of plastic pollution into the oceans.