The Environment Agency has published new technical guidance on classifying and assessing waste, ahead of changes to the List of Waste and Hazardous Waste criteria, which will apply from June.

Forty people were evacuated from buildings near a biomass company in North Wales yesterday, after a fire broke out at the site.

Up to 90 per cent of the world’s waste electronic and electrical equipment is illegally traded or dumped, according to the United Nations Environment Programme.

Swindon Borough Council is calling on those impacted by last year’s fire at Averies Recycling to submit details of the experience to a special inquiry so that ‘lessons can be learned for the future’.

Friends of the Earth has reiterated its call for government to review resource use, after evaluating the embodied land and water use in products.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including European Recycling Platform, J&B Recycling, Viridor and E.ON.

The waste and resources industry calls on the incoming Conservative government to provide greater leadership on waste and resource policy.

Express Newspapers group has removed or amended stories relating to a UK recycling 'scandal', which Eunomia says contained 'significant errors'.

The European Commission’s ‘indicative roadmap’ to its revised Circular Economy Package promises an ‘ambitious’ and ‘effective’ framework that will ‘drive real change’.

EXCLUSIVE: The founder and former Deputy Chairman of ECOPlastics Recycling, Jonathan Short, has set up a new plastics reprocessing venture, Plastics Reclamation Limited.