The Department for Communities and Local Government has upheld its rejection of Veolia’s New Barnfield incinerator following High Courts’ reassessment ruling.

Business Secretary Sajid Javid has announced plans to cut £10 billion of ‘unnecessary’ regulation, including that for the waste sector, over the next five years.

A round-up of waste and resources news, including a food waste Visionary, litter action, and whales swimming in plastic bottles.

Glasgow Airport has increased its recycling rate to over 90 per cent after implementing Zero Waste Scotland’s Resource Efficiency Pledge.

Gravesham Borough Council has received a £100,000 reward from Kent County Council after increasing its recycling rates by 10 per cent in a year.

Resource and waste management company FCC Environment has become a member of the Resource Association, a trade association for the reprocessing and recycling industries and their supply chain.

Data measuring the input and output of material recovery facilities across England and Wales has been published for the first time today by WRAP.

A former Director of Dalkeith Demolition Limited has been fined £700 after being found guilty of breaching the conditions of a waste management licence.

Cabinet members of Oxfordshire County Council will vote next Tuesday (21 July) on a consultation that recommends closing a number of its household waste recycling centres.

A scrutiny report into the roll out of Dorset Waste Partnership’s county-wide ‘Recycle for Dorset’ scheme has found that no major problems persist with the service.