There needs to be more heated debate on the circular economy to ‘move things forward’, Iain Gulland tells the Kit Strange Memorial Lecture.

The Department of Energy & Climate Change has stripped Nuclear Management Partners of its £9-billion contract to clean up the Sellafield nuclear site.

Resource Association Chairman and Board member Jonathan Short steps down to ‘focus on existing business interests’.

A round-up of business news from the waste and resources sector, including the European Recycling Platform, PCRRG, Biffa, and Luxus.

Cory Wheelabrator has withdrawn plans to build an incinerator in Kings Lynn following the termination of its waste contract.

Businesses are being urged to apply to the £3.8-million Scottish Recycling Fund to further reprocessing, repair, and remanufacturing work.

Plastics recycling company Jayplas has created a new plastic film packaging division after installing a new extrusion and printing plant in Worksop.

BW Riddle has been fined £70,00 and ordered to pay £18,000 in costs after a worker was left with broken ribs after falling from a conveyor belt.

A consortium comprising technology firm Babcock & Wilcox Volund and construction company Interserve has been chosen to build Viridor’s incinerator in East Lothian.

Six waste and resource management bodies have written to the main political parties in England outlining policy priority suggestions for the next administration.