PRIME, a pan-European consortium comprising ten partners, has announced a project to engineer high-value products from low-grade, mixed plastic waste through the development of a cost-effective, flexible moulding technology.

A final report by the West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership (MRWS) has been released (19 July) that sets out considerations needed to be taken into account should the plans for a nuclear waste store in the area go ahead.

MPs on the Energy and Climate Change Committee have said the Treasury have made the government’s draft Energy Bill ‘unworkable’ and could pose companies with an ‘unacceptable’ level of risk.

Plans for the UK’s largest deep-geothermal heat plant have been announced by GT Energy.

Burdens has launched the UK’s first small-scale commercial anaerobic digestion (AD) system for food waste.

Food and drink manufacturers involved in the voluntary Federation House Commitment (FHC) have reduced water use by 14.4 per cent, according to a new report.

Even in a recession, the need to be sustainable at home and at work does not go away. Chris Humphrey takes a look at the steps businesses can take in the quest for resource efficiency, from building a new green office to improving the efficiency of an existing one.

The remanufacturing industry employs 50,000 people and generates £2.4 billion for the UK economy, but it is not always embraced or promoted with the same warmth as the better-known Rs. The current economic climate just might provide the perfect conditions for investment

The Environmental Services Association (ESA), a trade body for the waste management industry, has published new guidelines to boost the capture of landfill gas and maximise renewable energy production at landfill sites.

With adverts all around us, we’re all exposed to thousands of commercial messages a day – and children are no exception. Most people agree that this is bad for them, but what effect does it have on the environment and on waste generation? Libby Peake finds out.