In our industry obsession with quality, we must not forget about biowaste. Tony Breton of Novamont takes a look at an Italian example.

In 2003, the previous government launched a project with the aim of ‘encouraging the development of new technologies for the recovery of value and the diversion of biodegradable municipal waste from landfill’.

WRAP has released guidelines for local authorities encouraging them to recycle rigid plastics. The guide provides an overview of the options for, and benefits from, recycling rigid plastics and includes an outline of the rigid plastics supply chain.

PET recycler ECO Plastics has opened an extension to their bottle recycling facility in Hemswell, Lincolnshire, making it the world’s largest plastics processing facility of its kind.

Europe should seize the opportunity of improving quality of life while adapting to climate change in cities, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA).

Recolight, the not-for-profit recycling scheme for lamps, has updated its online booking system for its business collection points and recyclers across the country.

The Scottish Parliament has passed new Waste (Scotland) Regulations that will impact on businesses and householders across the country. New rules will require all businesses to separate paper and card, plastic, metal and glass for recycling by January 2014

Ceredigion and Powys County Councils have awarded Wales’ first longterm food waste treatment contract to Agrivert. The waste will be transported to Agrivert’s Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plant in Oxfordshire to be converted to fertiliser and electricity.

Hugh O’Donnell has been ordered to pay £917,000 as part of an investigation into the illegal waste disposal site he ran near Reading. This is the largest fine the Environment Agency has ever secured against a waste criminal under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

Data published on the Environment Agency’s National Packaging Waste Database shows that between January and March 2012, only 1.72 million tonnes of waste was recovered or recycled compared with 1.80 million tonnes during the same period the year before.