An exercise will be held at a Lincolnshire recycling centre tomorrow (Thursday, 19 November) to test the response from emergency services and public-sector organisations to fires at waste sites.

Environment Agency contractors started work to clear an abandoned village tip in Yorkshire holding 10,000 tonnes of smouldering waste yesterday.

Packaging recycling data across EU member states shows inconsistencies and variances, according to a new study by the Extended Producer Responsibility Alliance (EXPRA).

Arsenal and France midfielder Mathieu Flamini has revealed that he is one of the people behind a bio-based company that has developed a process to produce levulinic acid on an industrial scale.

A round-up of some of the more unusual stories coming out of the waste and resources world...

Ahead of the release of the European Commission’s Circular Economy Package, Resource sat down with EEF’s Susanne Baker to discuss the package’s potential and how close the manufacturing industry is to embracing circularity.

Two Cambridgeshire local authorities have begun merged waste operations that aim to reduce fuel costs and optimise collection routes.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including FoodCycle’s Breadline Challenge, meat in cardboard bins and a profit warning for Sims.

CIWM has criticised Defra’s responses to the European Commission’s Circular Economy Package consultation, saying they highlight ‘Whitehall’s ambivalent attitude to green growth’.

Waste management company Shanks Group plc is set to pay £5 million in extra costs after a four-month delay to its £750-million South Kirkby waste plant.