The Waste & Resources Action Programme has officially registered as a charity.

Government must work to ‘lift the regulatory burden’ on remanufacturing if its ‘enormous economic, social and environmental potential’ is to be realised.

A round-up of business news from the resource sector, including Recolight, FCC Environment, Viridor, and Remondis.

The owner of demolition company BJ Patchett & Sons Ltd has been fined just £1,000 for running an illegal waste site.

Nestlé and Unilever are amongst a number of companies working with the resource industry in a new project to ‘create a circular economy for flexible packaging’.

FCC Medio Ambiente SA has been chosen as the preferred bidder for Edinburgh and Midlothian councils’ residual waste contract.

SITA UK’s incinerator in Great Blakenham has begun exporting power to the National Grid.

Defra is to investigate the possibility of introducing a regulatory treatment standard for refuse-derived fuel after consultation reveals ‘market failures’.

The Autumn Statement reveals little on waste, but confirms that government is seeking to reform the Landfill Communities Fund and will introduce a loss on ignition testing regime for MBT waste from 1 April 2015.

A Viridor-owned company has been fined £165,000 for safety failings after a worker was blinded at its Bargeddie MRF.