Interserve has been served a notice of termination to its contract with Viridor after ‘continually and repeatedly’ failing to meet milestones on its Glasgow gasification plant.

Serco has been awarded three new contract extensions and one new contract to provide waste collection services for councils.

A joint initiative to tackle the potentially deadly issue of people using bins for shelter this winter has been announced by a number of UK waste management companies.

Waste management company Powerday has launched an employment scheme for ex-offenders in London.

Impetus Waste Management has gone in to administration, forcing its two waste transfer sites to close, following the withdrawal of Air Products from the gasification market.

Bidwell Metals Ltd will close its scrapyard in Radstock, Somerset, after a judicial review deemed residents’ noise complaints to be sufficient to force its closure.

Five leading fashion brands and retailers have become the first to sign up to the European Clothing Action Plan, a Europe-wide strategy to reduce the carbon, water and waste footprints of the fashion industry.

REnescience Northwich, a facility using innovative enzyme technology to separate household waste from recyclable materials and generate energy at the same time, will open next year, Danish firm DONG Energy has announced.

The situation surrounding the sale of New Earth Solutions Group has seen the company avoid a fine of £1.3 million after the asphyxiation death of a worker in 2014.

The Environment Agency is investigating the possibility of a link between lorry-loads of waste that have been dumped in 20 locations across Essex.