FCC Environment's Kristian Dales argues that now is the time to address historic system constraints in the waste industry.

The Labour Party ‘will embrace the circular economy’ and become the ‘Party for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’, Shadow Environment Secretary Rachael Maskell told the party’s annual conference.

Waste management firm Urbaser is to be sold to a Chinese-controlled investment firm, its owners have confirmed.

The ‘Circularety’ platform, developed by ecosurety, gives packaging producers the chance to invest their obligated payments in specific recycling projects.

Three men have been arrested on suspicion of slavery offences after raids on two recycling facilities in Sandwell, near Birmingham.

Packaging compliance scheme Valpak has become the latest funding partner in the MetalMatters programme, a scheme to help councils boost the capture rates for metal packaging in kerbside recycling.

Philip Morton is to retire as CEO of compliance scheme REPIC at the end of the year, with former Viridor COO Mark Burrows-Smith taking his place.

Sainsbury’s has for the first time published data for its nationwide food waste generation, revealing that the supermarket cut its food waste by 10 per cent last year.

The Chief Executive of the Environment Agency has likened waste crime to the drugs trade in the 1980s, as the environmental regulator reports that nearly 1,000 illegal waste sites were closed down last year.

A new ‘pay-what-you-feel’ food surplus supermarket in Yorkshire is providing the public with the chance to grab unsold food from retailers and suppliers and prevent much-needed supplies from disappearing into the bin.