Flexible laminated packaging has been a boon for manufacturers, but a challenge for recycling companies. Annie Kane discovers an innovation in technology that could change all that

Charlie Flounders, Commercial Manager, Feedstocks at Tamar Energy gives us an update on how the organics/AD market is faring.

Wales’s Natural Resources Minister and Scotland’s Energy Minister have written a joint letter to UK Energy Secretary Amber Rudd warning her that her renewables strategy ‘will significantly damage’ the renewables sector.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Taylor bins fire-retardant lid, Grundon/Viridor contract, and London Borough of Newham fly-tipping app.

England's recycling rate hit 44.8 per cent in the calendar year 2014, up by just 0.6 per cent on the year before, provisional statistics from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs show.

The United Nations has agreed a draft for its 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, which seeks to halve global food waste, ‘substantially reduce waste generation’ and curb climate change.

Hadfield Wood Recyclers has temporarily stopped accepting waste wood at two of its sites to avoid enforcement action from the Environment Agency.

Boomeco Ltd, a wood recycling and waste handling company in Avonmouth, has been fined £14,000 for its role in a fly infestation that affected homes in Bristol last year.

National environmental charities have written to David Cameron expressing concern that 10 environmental policies have been ‘cancelled or weakened’ in the first months of his new government.

Somerset Waste Partnership is asking waste treatment suppliers to suggest alternatives to landfill, in the hope of reducing the £12 million it spends on waste disposal.