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Wood recyclers angry over Agency stance on fire template
Wood recyclers have voiced their concerns at a decision by the Environment Agency to reject parts of its proposed waste wood fire prevention plan (FPP) template. Andy Hill, chair of the Wood Recyclers...
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China moves toward 0.5% contamination limit
Further details have emerged of the proposed revised standard for the export of materials to China for recycling, which could now be set at 0.5% allowable levels of contrary material rather than the...
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Green taxes backed ahead of Budget
The waste management and recycling sector has responded positively to an anticipated consultation on environmental taxes, ahead of Wednesday’s Budget. While Defra is already consulting on a bottle...
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Government to investigate single-use plastic charges
Chancellor Philip Hammond has announced plans to investigate how the tax system and charges on single-use plastic items can reduce waste. And, following the announcement in the chancellor’s Autumn...
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CIWM: ‘Positive Budget for resource and waste sector’
The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management welcomed today’s Budget announcement as “positive” for the waste sector. CIWM singled out the £30 million of extra funding over the next four years to...
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FCC disappointed over lack of reuse support in Budget
Waste management firm FCC Environment has expressed disappointment that measures to incentivise reuse did not feature in the government’s Budget announcement. Responding to today’s proposals Paul...
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China’s minister for environment signals tough stance on imports
China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection has this week signalled that it will take a tough line on the new regulations governing the import of “solid waste” into the country under its revised...
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Bywaters and Sky highlight ocean pollution
With concerns over single-use plastics making headlines in recent months, London-based recycling company Bywaters this week played host to a ten-metre whale made of waste plastics. The ‘Plasticus’...
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EU Commissioner ‘in touch’ with China over exports
The European Commission has requested China to consider a longer transition period for tighter controls relating to the import of waste for recycling. And, the Bureau of International Recycling has...
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Scientists press for waste to be used as UK resource
Top government scientists today recommended that the exporting or disposing of waste should end. The lack of support for exports comes in a government-funded report which describes ‘waste’ as an...
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Defra looks at impact of Chinese rules on councils
Local authorities could face a reduction in income from recyclable materials because of restrictions on the export of some recyclables to China, a pre-Christmas meeting called by Defra has heard....
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Audit Committee calls for deposit return scheme
The Environmental Audit Committee has called for the introduction of a UK-wide deposit return scheme for plastic bottles and a requirement to provide free drinking water in public premises in order to...
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Creagh committee proposes 25p coffee cup levy
The Environmental Audit Committee today called on the government to introduce a UK-wide 25p “latte levy” on disposable coffee cups and set targets to recycle 100% of them by 2023. Starbucks were one of...
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BIR calls for international agreements on recycling
Global recycling association, Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), is calling for world leaders to implement and strengthen international agreements that promote recycling. The recommendation comes...
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Industry responds to coffee cups report
Two of the UK’s most prominent waste management companies and the Paper Cup Alliance have responded to the call from the Environmental Audit Committee today for a 25p “latte levy” on disposable coffee...
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China: No signs of stockpiles yet, says Defra
No reports of stockpiling of waste materials as a result of the restriction on exports of paper and plastics to China have been received so far, according to the Department for Environment, Food and...
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Defra ‘encouraged’ by industry action over coffee cups
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has vowed to “carefully consider” calls from the Environment Audit Committee to introduce a 25p ‘latte levy’ on disposable coffee cups....
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Suspended sentence for former V10 Polymers owner
The former owner of the fire-plagued site of a plastics recycling centre who ‘rode roughshod’ over environmental regulations has been given a suspended prison sentence. Preston Crown Court heard how...
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Plastics exports rise to non-China destinations
Exporters of plastic waste for recycling have stepped up the volumes sent from the UK to Turkey, Taiwan, Vietnam and Malaysia, Michael Gove, Secretary of State for the Environment, has told Parliament....
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Dutch police raid recycling business
Dutch police have raided the premises of a paper recycling business in Oosterhout, about 30 miles south east of Rotterdam. In a statement, Dutch police said that on Monday evening (8 January) three men...
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