A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including service station recycling, circular economy for kids and an estates recycling challenge.

A Sheffield scrap metal recycling company has been made to pay £160,000 after a worker was killed when he was hit in the head by an exploding gas canister.

A man who operated an illegal car-breaking business in Cornwall has been ordered to pay £5,484 in fines and costs.

Two million cars reach the end of their lives in the UK every year. Edward Perchard finds out what happens once your car has reached the end of the road

The British automotive industry has launched a free take-back scheme to ensure the recovery of all end-of-life cars and provide help to owners of brands no longer trading in the UK.

Shanks Group plc has sold almost half of its equity in its £750-million PFI contract with Wakefield Council.

The owner of a skip hire company has been given a two-year custodial sentence for waste offences including running a waste site without a permit.

A bill that could ban the incineration of recyclable material is to become law after being passed by the National Assembly for Wales yesterday (2 February).

Waste treatment company Clean Power Properties has suffered two setbacks to proposed waste gasification and pyrolysis developments in Corby and Carmarthenshire in the past week.

The Environment Agency has significantly missed targets to cut down on high-risk illegal waste sites in England, instead seeing an increase of 19 per cent since April 2014.