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.

Biffa Polymers is set to double the output of its Redcar plastics recycling facility with a £6.5-million investment in a new recycling line.

Nearly 2,000 residents signed up to a new £40 opt-in service for garden waste wheelie bin collections, which began this weekend in Calderdale.

Local authorities in North West England have achieved combined savings of around £20 million per year through delivering waste efficiencies, though recycling rates are stagnating, a new study has revealed.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including fly-tipping punishments, departures at Viridor and a new food waste strategy in Peterborough.

The Recycling Association believes newly-released guidelines on the quality of paper for recycling are ‘a start’ but do not go far enough to highlight that everyone across the supply chain can impact paper quality.

Northern Irish businesses are now required to separate and recycle food waste after a new law came into effect last week.

Construction has started on food waste recycler ReFood’s new £32-million anaerobic digestion plant in Dagenham, East London.

SUEZ’s Recycling and Recovery UK division has selected Bulk Handling Systems to design, engineer, manufacture and install two materials recovery facilities in Aberdeen.

Residents of the European Union generated 475 kilogrammes per person in 2014, 44 per cent of which was recycled or composted, according to a report published yesterday (30 March) by Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU.