Yorwaste has entered into a partnership with North Yorkshire County Council to manage the council’s 20 household waste recycling centres (HWRCs).

As part of a new focus on incineration, Cory Riverside Energy has announced a £520 million debt-refinancing package for its Riverside incinerator in Belvedere, East London.

Local environmental group Community R4C has lodged a complaint with the Competition and Markets Authority regarding Gloucestershire County Council’s incinerator contract with Urbaser Balfour Beatty.

Workers in the City of London are being urged to use brand new coffee cup recycling points springing up across the area as Hubbub’s ‘Square Mile Challenge’ aims to recycle half a million cups in April.

Defra has established food waste, urban recycling and the benefits of resource efficiency as ‘high-level’ R&D priorities in the department.

Veolia has been forced to draft in an emergency director after its Leeds recycling and energy recovery facility missed recycling targets three times in a row.

Plans for a new £100-million incinerator capable of processing 110,000 tonnes of waste a year have been approved unanimously by Dundee City Council.

Veolia has agreed a long-term contract to provide recycled glass to Knauf Insulation, which will be processed at a new £10-million facility.

Gatwick Airport has formally opened a plant to burn Category 1 food and packaging waste from flights and produce power for the airport – a facility it says is a world first.

West Midlands recycling company Arrow Recycling Ltd has been fined £160,000 after a worker was left in a coma when he was crushed by a falling stack of baled cardboard.