The Environment Agency is to review the cost of its permits and business charges after launching a public consultation.

Cutbacks planned by waste firm Viridor could lead to some 100 employees working in mechanical biological treatment facilities across Greater Manchester being served redundancy notices in a bid to cut costs.

Shoppers will be given a simpler, more consistent range of storage and date advice on food packaging after new WRAP guidance presented a new industry standard for date labelling and storage advice used by food manufacturers and retailers.

The government’s Industrial Strategy white paper has been welcomed by the waste and resources industry along with calls for collaboration going forward.

The government wants to position the UK as a world leader in maximising the value we extract from our resources, strengthening the market for secondary materials and moving towards a more circular economy, its new Industrial Strategy has said.

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Nigel Lee, General Manager at Amur, says that anaerobic digestion plants need to work harder to improve gas yields if they are to achieve their budgeted income.

A new collaboration between bio-bean and Shell is producing biofuel from coffee waste to help power London’s bus network.

Many ‘leading food retailers’ have taken steps towards agreeing to report their food waste figures individually using a common methodology following talks, although reports that a final agreement has been reached are believed to be premature.

Research by Groupon has revealed that 35 per cent of Brits admit to not finishing their food the last time they went out to eat, leading to waste totalling an estimated £4 billion every year.