Veolia has been named as the preferred bidder for an eight-year contract to deliver harmonised waste collection and street cleansing across four boroughs in South London.

Resource Association Chief Executive Ray Georgeson has called for clarity in recycling measurement to repair the current ‘worthless’ European league tables.

Government proposals to restrict plant sizes and feedstocks will ‘kill off’ promising anaerobic digestion projects, according to ADBA.

A Nantwich recycling company has been fined £93,000 after a 24-year-old worker lost his arm when he was dragged into machinery.

A Darlington man has been jailed for three years after failing to pay back profits gained from illegal waste crime.

The Environment Agency has obtained a first-of-its-kind Criminal Behaviour Order, banning a self-employed builder from Somerset from handling waste for five years.

The median cost of sending waste to MRFs has increased by 316 per cent in the past year, according to the WRAP.

Local authority body LARAC has criticised REA and ESA reports into the future of the resources industry and says that more collaboration is needed to take the sector forward.

Waste management company Shanks has confirmed that it is considering the purchase of the Van Gansewinkel Groep, one of the largest waste collection and recycling businesses operating in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Overcapacity of residual waste treatment will exist across Northern Europe from 2026, according to the tenth issue of Eunomia Research & Consulting’s biannual ‘Residual Waste Infrastructure Review’.