Scottish Economy Secretary Keith Brown has expressed his concerns over the progress of the Green Investment Bank’s privatisation, saying it amounts to ‘fragmentation or asset stripping’.

A new study by packaging trade association INCPEN backs behaviour change campaigns instead of bag and bottle charges to reduce littering levels.

An Avonmouth gasification plant is to stay closed until 2018 as it plans a ‘major redevelopment’ to solve issues regarding feedstock supply.

Two men died just days before Christmas when a teenager fell into a tanker of slurry and his colleague attempted to save him, police have said.

R&WUK, the partnership between CIWM and ESA, has backed a parliamentary report calling for new environmental protection laws to be prepared before Brexit negotiations are finalised.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector including new Leave You Cap On campaigns, an appointment at Amey and an opening for London’s Sustainable Development Commission.

A former director of a Scottish waste firm that was used as a front for a million-pound heroin smuggling ring has been sentenced.

Somerset councils have voted to expand their recycling collection and move to a three-weekly waste collection scheme in 2017.

The difference between a soft and hard Brexit in terms of the impact on the waste industry could be huge, according to Eunomia’s latest infrastructure review.

The Green Investment Bank has announced investment in another energy-from-waste incineration facility this week, committing £35 million to a new plant in Flintshire, North Wales.