Nine companies have received a share of £6-million funding from the Department of Energy & Climate Change to test heat network projects across the UK.

Recycling company Neales Waste Management will move to CementirHolding’s Nordic & Baltic division, as part of a company group restructure.

ArcelorMittal, LanzaTech, and Primetals Technologies have announced that they are to build ‘Europe’s first-ever commercial-scale production facility to create bioethanol from waste gases produced during the steelmaking process’.

SUEZ environnement’s £180-million incinerator in Great Blakenham, Suffolk, has been officially opened by the Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk, Clare, Countess of Euston.

An inquest into the death of a man who was killed in an industrial shredder at MID UK Recycling’s Grantham facility in Lincolnshire, has ruled the incident as ‘accidental’.

MEPs have voted to back circular economy proposals including recycling rates, incineration and resource ‘passports’ as part of on-going European Commission plans.

New WRAP report finds local authorities paid a median fee of £6 for every tonne of waste sent to material recovery facilities in 2014/15, but that some councils pay MRFs to take material, while others are paid for it.

The rising cost of landfill disposal has been a main contributing factor to the 'sudden emergence' of the English RDF export market, according to the Environment Agency.

Viridor/Grundon’s Lakeside incineration plant in Slough would need to be ‘removed and replaced’ if a third runway is built at Heathrow Airport, says the Airports Commission.

HSE figures show that the waste and recycling industry is one of the UK's most dangerous sectors.