Richard Hands, Chief Executive of the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE) UK, outlines why renewable materials should be an equally-important part of the circular economy debate.

The owner of demolition company BJ Patchett & Sons Ltd has been fined just £1,000 for running an illegal waste site.

Recycling half of the items littered in England would have an economic value of at least £14.8 million, finds Keep Britain Tidy report.

The Green Investment Bank is investing £30m in a new combined heat and power biomass plant in Merseyside.

Plans to build an 11-megawatt biomass plant in Avonmouth have been rejected by Bristol City Council, following public concerns over air quality.

A fire involving a ‘large quantity of recycling materials’ has broken out at CEW Recycling Group’s facility in St Helens.

The Recycling Quality Information Point has been updated to include details of what the maximum levels of cross contamination are for ‘high-quality recycling’.

Welsh local authorities sent five per cent less biodegradable waste to landfill in 2013/14 than in 2012/13, but four councils were still over their allowance.

Waste wood that has been burning at a woodpile in Essex was deposited there illegally, the Environment Agency confirms.

The Treasury is to guarantee bonds worth up to £48.5m for the Speyside Biomass project, to help ensure it comes online.