European Presidential candidate Guy Verhofstadt has opened Axion Polymers’s new end-of-life vehicle recycling facility.

British Metals Recycling Association calls for speedier allocation of scrap metal licences after survey finds two-fifths are yet to be issued.

Suffolk Waste Partnership has awarded Viridor with a four-and-a half year contract to ‘sort and market’ mixed household recycling.

Norfolk County Council’s Cabinet has unanimously decided to abandon its King’s Lynn incinerator contract with Cory Wheelabrator.

Julian Gaylor, Sales and Marketing Director at Taylor, argues that there needn’t be confusion around waste contamination.

Professor Margaret Bates has been elected Junior Vice President of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management.

A round-up of news from the waste and recycling industry, including Tradebe Healthcare Holdings Limited, Axion Consulting, and LRS.

Biffa Waste Services Ltd fined £20,000 after an agency worker loses the tips of two fingers in unguarded machinery.

Amended regulations that seek to better control waste exports and crack down on illegal shipments have been laid in Parliament.

WRAP Cymru calls on businesses wishing to develop small-scale reprocessing facilities or recycling collections to apply for ARID funding.