A 57-year-old Viridor collections services driver has died after his vehicle rolled into a building in the grounds of a Plymouth hospital.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources industry, including Croydon Council, ERP UK, DS Envrionmental, EMR, and enitial.

Viridor acquires Commercial Recycling Ltd’s waste collection division for an undisclosed sum.

Environmental taxes provided £44.6 billion to the UK economy in 2014, with landfill tax contributing £1.1 billion, according to a report by the Office of National Statistics.

A Rotherham-based metal recycling firm, CF Booth Ltd, has been fined £15,000 for safety failings after a young worker was seriously injured by unguarded machinery.

Food waste recycling company ReFood has completed a £6-million expansion project at its anaerobic digestion facility in Doncaster.

Members of the public are being invited to attend public exhibitions about the new Edmonton EcoPark in Enfield, which will burn up to 700,000 tonnes of waste a year.

Hereford-based recycling company Eastside 2000 Limited, part of the Wye Valley Group, has been fined £18,000 for illegally storing waste.

Philip Simpson, Commercial Director at ReFood, looks at the latest developments in food waste recycling and discusses his wishes for greater government commitment.

The ‘world’s first’ ocean plastics clean-up system will be deployed next year off the coast of Tsushima Island in the Korea Strait.