Assets from PlasRecycle’s plastic film reprocessing plant will be auctioned off after administrators failed to secure a buyer despite ‘strong interest’.

Waste management group Biffa has today formally announced that it is to offer stock in the company on the London Stock Exchange next month, after a year of speculation about the company’s future.

A waste boss from Southampton has been imprisoned for a series of illegal waste disposal crimes, with the sentencing coming five years after a previous conviction.

The Recycling Association has launched a campaign to improve the quality of recycled materials after warning that more major consumers of recycled material will look elsewhere for their supplies if UK collectors and processors do not address the issue of quality in their exported product.

More than £9 billion could be added to the UK economy through the integration of circular economy principles into industrial strategy, says waste management company SUEZ.

The resources industry has welcomed the publication of a plan to introduce more consistent recycling across England in an attempt to increase participation and decrease contamination of kerbside recycling services.

Every home in England could be able to recycle the same materials from 2025 as the government and waste industry seek to address confusion, contamination and stagnating recycling rates.

Knowing what happens to recycling once it’s been collected is a growing motivation in English residents’ participation in council recycling services, especially for those under the age of 35, according to research commissioned by the Resource Association.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a successful food waste campaign in Surrey, a takeover for Helistrat and more.

Waste Minister Therese Coffey says that the government’s environmental policy following Brexit will be “focused on outcomes” and that certain elements of the Circular Economy Package could end in “perverse” results.