Peterborough City Council announces Viridor as preferred bidder to build and manage an energy from waste plant in the city.

Residents of Milton Keynes have recycled more than 14 tonnes of batteries in one year.

Plymouth City Council commissions independent review of Devonport EfW incinerator plant.

Biffa has announced its plans to end landfill operations at its Houghton-le-Spring quarry in the wake of local concerns, proposing instead an alternative plan that will help create jobs.

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.

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

No longer to be swept under the carpet, niche streams like, well, carpets, are starting to receive attention from the recycling industry, and to good effect: diversion rates have gone up from 10 per cent in 2008 to 16.5 per cent in 2011.

Sims Metal Management has introduced a new system of cashless scrap metal trading as a way to curb fraud and adhere to anticipated regulation changes.

Recycling staff in Sheffield have agreed to suspend strikes in light of a new agreement.

A paint reuse network is calling on Britons to donate their leftover tins of paint.