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EA adds alternative measures in update to fire prevention guide

The Environment Agency has updated its fire prevention guide for waste fires to include successful case studies from site operators

Avonmouth Energy Recovery Facility aerial view

Viridor and CNIM announce takeover of £252m Avonmouth ERF site

Recycling and waste management company Viridor took over the operation of its Energy Recovery Facility in December.

Powering change through data

For councils, identifying and targeting problematic waste areas and targeting interventions to these places is an ongoing challenge. Rob Cole looks at how three local authorities are using data to generate change

New study to research effects of lockdown on household food waste

Business in Brief - 19/01/2020

Packaging industry calls for joined-up approach to waste policy

BPF roadmap calls for reduced plastic waste exports by 2030

Spotlight

2021 to herald biggest change in biowaste market in recent years

With mandatory food waste collections now on the horizon decisions need to be made about collection and treatment. WRM Director Ben Brown considers what this means for the coming year

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The PRN system is ripe for reform, not replacement

Replacing the PRN system with an ‘all-in’ deposit return scheme is not the answer for glass, says Recresco director Tim Gent

A System Change Compass - charting the path to the European Green Deal

David Newman, Managing Director of BBIA, considers the key messages of the new report 'A System Change Compass: Implementing the European Green Deal in a time of recovery', co-authored by SYSTEMIQ and the Club of Rome.

Recycling is not sorted

Professor Edward Kosior, Managing Director of Nextek, argues the importance of shifting industry focus onto how sorted waste can be properly re-used.

Why Zero Waste Cities are at the heart of reaching 2030 UN goals

Jamie Crummie explains how Zero Waste Cities are imperative to reaching UN food waste targets.

Video

Can you imagine how much recycling gets missed across a county?

Over 32,000 tonnes of material that could be recycled is instead put in residual waste bins each year in West Sussex, costing the council an estimated £3 million a year in disposal costs. To highlight the scale of this waste, West Sussex County Council has created a video that visualises it on a personal and then county-wide level.