24 January 2020North Ayrshire approves Doveryard EfW
North Ayrshire council has granted waste management company Doveryard Ltd permission to build a 180,000 tonnes per annum capacity energy from waste (EfW) plant in Irvine. The plant, sited at the Oldhall West Industrial Estate, ...
24 January 2020Tesco removes plastic from multipacks
Supermarket chain Tesco has today announced that it is to stop selling plastic-wrapped multipacks and allow consumers instead to have multibuy deals on tinned food from 2 March. And, the supermarket chain said trials it had ...
24 January 2020Food waste down by 7%, WRAP says
Total food waste levels fell by 480,000 tonnes between 2015 and 2018 – a 7% reduction per person – according to a report published today (24 January) by sustainability charity WRAP. The data has been released as part of an...
23 January 2020Woman jailed for family-run illegal waste site
A woman from Kent whose family ran an illegal waste storage and processing business at their farm near Faversham has been jailed for 30 weeks. An Environment Agency statement explained that Lucy Mete, 26, was sentenced at ...
23 January 2020Warning in Wales over ‘cheap’ waste fees
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has published a price list of what a “legitimate” waste carrier would charge in parts of Wales, warning that anything below this should be treated with caution. This comes as the regulatory body ...
23 January 2020Climate Committee urges action on food waste
There needs to be "universal separate food waste collection" to deliver the government’s net zero greenhouse gas emissions target by 2050, according to a report published today, 23 January, by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).
23 January 2020East Northants praises kerbside WEEE collections
East Northamptonshire council says it has gathered approximately 13 tonnes of small waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) since a weekly kerbside collection was launched last month. On 09 December, the council announced...
23 January 2020Concern over Single Use Plastic ‘loopholes’
The impact of the EU’s Single Use Plastics (SUP) Directive could be diminished by potential ‘loopholes’, a report from consultancy Eunomia has warned. The Single Use Plastics (SUP) Directive passed into EU law in June 2019 ...
22 January 2020Portsmouth ‘prioritises’ food waste over plastics
Portsmouth city council has today (January 22) announced plans to ‘prioritise’ the recycling of food waste over plastics in the wake of 42 containers of plastic waste being returned to the UK by Malaysia. On Monday (20 January...
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