The Environment Agency has released new guidelines on the production of fire prevention plans for waste and recycling sites, which it believes will help reduce the incidence of fires. But what do they mean for recycling businesses?

Waste and recycling technology supplier AMCS has expanded its reach with the acquisition of GMT Europe.

Ian McAulay has stepped down as CEO of waste and resources management company Viridor with immediate effect, with a statement from the company saying that he has left to ‘pursue other opportunities’.

A campaign led by top London chefs to ban polystyrene packaging is misguided, and should instead be focused on creating better collection systems from restaurants, says the Recycling Association.

Veolia has been awarded a new contract to deliver recycling, waste collection and street cleansing services to Camden Council worth an estimated £338 million.

A group of 36 national and European associations has called for the Circular Economy Package to recognise the function of packaging and safeguard the free movement of packaging in the EU’s internal market.

The streets of London’s Notting Hill district are back to normal this morning, after a major clean-up operation following last weekend’s carnival removed 200 tonnes of waste, the same as 15 of London’s iconic red Routemaster buses.

Councils are being unfairly criticised in the fallout to a sharp rise of household recycling contamination, according to local authority membership organisation LARAC.

Prominent chefs including Ed Baines and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall have called on Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to ban polystyrene packaging to improve London’s recycling and protect marine life.

Eunomia’s latest Local Authority Recycling Carbon Index shows that improvements in Wales and Northern Ireland have overshadowed England’s stuttering recycling efforts.