A man was made to pay £16,800 yesterday following charges brought by the Environment Agency for offences regarding waste ‘storage, deposit and treatment’.

A new paper released by Viridor states that the waste management system is ‘no longer fit for purpose’ and encourages the adoption of an aggregated services model.

A new guide to help manufacturers avoid unintentional product residue, or the ‘bit at the bottom’, of many consumer products was published by Incpen yesterday.

Ray Georgeson, delivering the 2016 Kit Strange Memorial Lecture, yesterday called for more united lobbying by recycling industries and ‘an active and enabling state’ to improve the sector’s prospects.

Steve Lee is to step down as CEO of CIWM at the end of the year, the body has announced.

New appointments have been made at ACE UK, WRAP, VEKA Recycling, Viridor and Europen.

Work has begun to remove all bring sites from Derbyshire Dales after the council determined that contamination issues and a revamped kerbside collection system rendered the service ‘unsustainable’.

Businesses are being sought to apply for £35,000 awards to encourage innovation around ‘future retail’ practices across a number of themes including food waste reduction.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, Greggs carrier bags helping Keep Britain Tidy, Poundland recycling and an online can recycling game.

Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority is forecast to overspend by as much as £2.5 million by the end of the year.