The UK Without Incineration Network has warned investors of the risk that gasification projects present with a briefing paper highlighting more than a dozen failed projects.

Angus Evers considers the consequences of an Upper Tribunal ruling on whether local authority VAT exemption distorts competition in the commercial waste market.

The directors of two waste companies in Swindon and North Wales have been banned and given suspended prison sentences after fires alerted authorities to their unpermitted sites.

The government has once again ruled out the possibility of imposing a 5p charge on disposable coffee cups handed out at high street retailers after calls by the Liberal Democrats.

The amount of waste being sent to landfill in England increased by over six per cent between 2014 and 2015, according to data published by the Environment Agency.

Green City Solutions, a German start-up creating urban air purification installations, has beaten off five other circular companies to win this year’s Green Alley Award.

Plans to find an alternative location for Viridor and Grundon’s Lakeside incinerator have begun after the government’s announcement that it has approved a third runway at Heathrow.

Countrystyle Recycling is considering an appeal after it was fined £300,000 after a worker was injured while repairing a shredder.

The driver of Stirling Council recycling vehicle has been jailed for a year for causing the death of an 80-year-old man during a round in 2014.

Celebrity chef and waste campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has accused brands of ‘greenwashing’ responses to the burning issue of coffee cup waste, criticising in particular a campaign to increase high street recycling of takeaway cups.