A fire at the Brentford site of European Metal Recycling caused disruption on major roads out of London yesterday.

Police in the Chinese province of Jiangsu have arrested three men after an illegal operation recycling medical waste into children’s toys and tableware was uncovered.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector including new Leave You Cap On campaigns, an appointment at Amey and an opening for London’s Sustainable Development Commission.

A former director of a Scottish waste firm that was used as a front for a million-pound heroin smuggling ring has been sentenced.

Somerset councils have voted to expand their recycling collection and move to a three-weekly waste collection scheme in 2017.

Two siblings who dumped tonnes of tyres across unlit roads at night have been fined £5,000 each after a council-led investigation.

Marine preservation organisations and personal care product producers are being asked to give their views on a proposed microbead ban, which a consultation has revealed would be limited to ‘rinse-off’ products.

A man has been fined after he punched an Environment Agency officer checking on the progress of an order to remove illegal waste from his farm.

The difference between a soft and hard Brexit in terms of the impact on the waste industry could be huge, according to Eunomia’s latest infrastructure review.

The Green Investment Bank has announced investment in another energy-from-waste incineration facility this week, committing £35 million to a new plant in Flintshire, North Wales.