Construction of the controversial Javelin Park incinerator is due to begin this summer, after a lengthy delay caused by planning protests.

The latest materials facilities reporting data shows a consistent level of target input and output, with the number of facilities taking part remaining lower than originally anticipated.

Recycle Now is using street magic to demonstrate how recycling metal and glass packaging items can be transformed into new containers.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including new trustees for Keep Britain Tidy, a new partnership for Egbert Taylor and a recycling award for Cambridge.

A large fire engulfed a warehouse containing paper, rubber, plastic and cardboard at a materials recovery facility run by Weir Waste Services near Birmingham last night.

Swedish company Studsvik AB has signed an agreement to divest its waste treatment business, which generated £14.9 million worth of revenue in 2015, to French energy company EDF.

Recent research into the amount of aluminium packaging being reprocessed or exported by the UK in 2015 has revealed that the ‘real’ value is approximately 10,000 tonnes more than the official figure released by the Environment Agency.

Around 70 firefighters remain on the site of a ‘severe’ fire that contained approximately 800 tonnes of metal and mixed plastic and rubber at European Metal Recycling’s facility in the Saltey area of Birmingham.

Aberdeenshire Council is formally calling for Scottish local authorities to be involved in the design of a deposit-return system.

The recycling rate of rigid metal packaging across Europe reached a new record of 74.7 per cent in 2013, according to Metal Packaging Europe.