Extended producer responsibility (EPR) sounds sensible and enticing from a waste management perspective. But how far is it possible to go, and what do we need to do to achieve it? Resource asked four experts

Waste industry members write to the European Environment Commissioner to urge him to reconsider his review of the circular economy package.

With the recent sale of Straight PLC to One51, Charles Newman caught up with Jonathan Straight to hear the story of how it all started and what’s coming next for the mustachioed bin tycoon

Recycling company TerraCycle has launched a new recycling programme for air and homecare products.

Paper manufacturer UPM will permanently close paper machines in the UK, France and Finland next year in response to paper ‘overcapacity’.

The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management and the Environmental Services Association will launch a new joint entity, Resources & Waste UK.

Metal packaging recycling campaign MetalMatters is being launched in Greater Manchester and Rhondaa Cynon Taf.

Waste management firm SiteServ (now in administration) has been fined £11,000 for illegally exporting waste.

Novelis will convert all of its beverage can body sheet production to its high-recycled content sheet, evercan™, ‘by the end of 2017’.

Natural Resources Wales has opened a consultation on Clean Power (UK) Limited’s application to operate a pyrolysis plant in Carmarthenshire.