Defra has been roundly criticised after its newly-published five-year plan virtually ignored the waste and resources sector.

Four defendants have been fined £49,000 for carrying out an illegal waste operation at Cinetic Quarry near Wildmoor in Worcestershire.

Waste fire tests are being undertaken to provide up-to-date scientific data about the flammable properties of recyclable materials and other wastes stored on waste recycling sites.

A plant that developers say can process unsorted household waste, creating biogas and separated plastic and metals for recycling, is to be built by in Cheshire.

Urgent research into the health and environmental risks associated with the disposal of engineered nanomaterials is needed, according to a new OECD report.

A Wiltshire-based scrapyard owner has received an 18-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, after a trail of waste liquid led from an illegal waste site to his property.

More than 250 jobs are set to be lost in a ‘major transformation’ of Lancashire County’s Council’s waste operations that will see two six-year-old sites run by Global Renewables mothballed.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a food waste communications trial, a Veolia employment project and the removal of street bins in Dorset to encourage recycling.

Lidl UK has announced it will be donating £500,000 from the carrier bag charge to a new Keep Britain Tidy initiative designed to inspire young people to reduce litter and waste.

A scrap metal firm that failed to report an incident that left a worker hospitalised for nearly two months with severe injuries to his arm has been fined just £2.