Waste company FCC Environment has invested £400,000 in an East Riding reuse shop that sells items ‘rescued’ from recycling centres.

Energy-from-waste firm Shanks Group plc opened London Stock Exchange yesterday, after listing the first retail offering on London Stock Exchange’s ‘green market’.

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’.

European investment body AURELIUS Group has followed up its acquisition of plastics company ECO Plastics by purchasing Regain Polymers Holdings from Chamonix Private Equity.

A round-up of waste and resources news, including an eco-friendly tennis ball, recycled carpet and landfill donations.

Community action group GlosVAIN has announced plans for a resource recovery centre to rival the county council’s controversial energy-from-waste plant.

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

The MetalMatters campaign has delivered a ‘positive and lasting’ effect on metal recovery from kerbside collections says a report by organisers Alupro.