Angus Evers from King & Wood Mallesons explains the EU Commission’s consultation on the functioning of waste markets in the EU and Defra’s proposals for a revised waste duty of care code of practice.

An exercise will be held at a Lincolnshire recycling centre tomorrow (Thursday, 19 November) to test the response from emergency services and public-sector organisations to fires at waste sites.

Environment Agency contractors started work to clear an abandoned village tip in Yorkshire holding 10,000 tonnes of smouldering waste yesterday.

Two Cambridgeshire local authorities have begun merged waste operations that aim to reduce fuel costs and optimise collection routes.

Faced with rampant growth in waste generation, the Korean government introduced a pay-as-you-throw system in 1995. Edward Perchard investigates how Seoul is putting its foot down on waste.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including FoodCycle’s Breadline Challenge, meat in cardboard bins and a profit warning for Sims.

CIWM has criticised Defra’s responses to the European Commission’s Circular Economy Package consultation, saying they highlight ‘Whitehall’s ambivalent attitude to green growth’.

Waste management company Shanks Group plc is set to pay £5 million in extra costs after a four-month delay to its £750-million South Kirkby waste plant.

A fire that broke out at a recycling plant in Londonderry just hours after it was sold is likely to burn for several more days, the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service has said.

Gloucestershire County Council is to pay a further £17 million of public money to Urbaser Balfour Beatty to hasten construction to the controversial Javelin Park incinerator near Stroud.