Waste Management

MP Therese Coffey has officially been given government responsibility for ‘waste’, reworded from predecessor Rory Stewart’s ‘resource management’ brief.

Moving rubbish to find a dropped phone, a hurried attempt to put out a fire and mistaking the roadside for a recycling centre are among the worst excuses for illegally dumping waste compiled by the Local Government Association.

Three companies have been selected to trial innovative ways to boost the recovery of critical raw materials from household electrical waste.

Investigations have begun after a Wandsworth recycling centre run by Cory Environmental caught fire for the second time in a week.

The possibility of one consistent recycling system being used in Scotland is edging closer after the Scottish Government announced that half of the country’s councils have signed up to the Scottish Household Recycling Charter.

Collection consistency is still a priority for the government, despite signs that investigations into the possibility of limiting the number of different kerbside waste collection systems have not gone as planned.

A Dorset waste operator has been hit with a suspended jail sentence and a £20,000 fine after running a ‘haphazard’ illegal waste oil storage and processing plant in the Dorset countryside for over a decade. 

The director of a Leeds-based recycling company has received a record jail sentence and faces the seizure of £2.2 million after fraudulently claiming recycling fees from government-backed schemes.

Nappy and absorbent hygiene product recycling company Knowaste is to appeal after Hillingdon Council refused planning permission for a new facility over potential odour emissions.