Waste Management

Best known as home to the rich and famous of the film-making industry, Los Angeles is, it turns out, quite committed to the idea of zero waste.

What could the future of resource use might look like if everything we saw could be enhanced with layers of digital information? 

The Environment Agency has released new guidelines on the production of fire prevention plans for waste and recycling sites, which it believes will help reduce the incidence of fires. But what do they mean for recycling businesses?

Ian McAulay has stepped down as CEO of waste and resources management company Viridor with immediate effect, with a statement from the company saying that he has left to ‘pursue other opportunities’.

Veolia has been awarded a new contract to deliver recycling, waste collection and street cleansing services to Camden Council worth an estimated £338 million. 

The streets of London’s Notting Hill district are back to normal this morning, after a major clean-up operation following last weekend’s carnival removed 200 tonnes of waste, the same as 15 of London’s iconic red Routemaster buses.

Prominent chefs including Ed Baines and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall have called on Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to ban polystyrene packaging to improve London’s recycling and protect marine life.

Restrictions on residual waste and a new kerbside-sort system have seen Merthyr Tydfil go from being one of the worst performing Welsh councils to one of the best over the course of a year, according to new data.

A BBC freedom of information request has revealed that the amount of items rejected for recycling has increased by 84 per cent in the last four years, leading to calls for harmonisation and a switch to separate-sort collection systems.