REPIC has funded a joint research project with researchers at the University of Lancaster to analyse data on WEEE flows to improve collection rates and forecasting in order to shape electronic waste recycling policy in the UK.

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The waste and resources industry has issued a cautiously positive response to the Autumn Budget, which included a call for evidence on a single-use plastics tax and extra funding for the Environment Agency to tackle waste crime.

Chancellor Philip Hammond has launched a call for evidence for a single-use plastics tax and committed an extra £30 million to the Environment Agency to tackle waste crime in his Autumn Budget Statement.

Plans to introduce four-weekly refuse collections across the borough of Conwy in North Wales have been put on hold as a council committee has voted down the proposals.

Finnish start-up Sulapac has won the 2017 Green Alley Award for its innovative alternative packaging for cosmetics products.

Nigel Lee, General Manager at Amur, says that anaerobic digestion plants need to work harder to improve gas yields if they are to achieve their budgeted income.

A 23-year-old man has died after falling into an industrial baler at a waste and recycling plant in Redruth, Cornwall.

A new collaboration between bio-bean and Shell is producing biofuel from coffee waste to help power London’s bus network.

Bringing in contract staff, paying overtime and lost revenue from missed recycling collections have seen costs incurred by Birmingham City Council during this summer’s bin strike rise to £6.6 million.