The Environment Agency has closed a record number of illicit waste operations this year according to new report.

The European Recycling Platform launches new compliance package in advance of WEEE legislation changes.

A Shoreditch restaurant, Mexican Express, has been fined £5,270 for ‘repeatedly failing to deal with waste properly’.

Dow Waste Management prevented from expanding after receiving 12-month licence curtailment for driving safety offences.

Environmental Services Association Education Trust commissions study to ‘address the challenge’ of waste crime.

Cardiff Against the Incinerator (CATI) group’s concerns over Viridor’s new EfW facility to form judicial review.

HSE has ‘simplified’ workplace legislation to ‘help businesses more easily comply with the law’.

The Scrap Metal Dealers Bill has come into effect (1 October 2013), but enforcement is to be delayed until December.

Illegal exports have been a hot topic lately, as domestic reprocessors highlight their detrimental impact, governments consult on changing regulations, and authorities nab perpetrators. Will Simpson investigates

Sam Sandilands and Stephen Lavington from Burges Salmon LLP highlight some of the goings on in the world of waste law