8 September 2017
How much waste is avoiding the correct landfill tax?
In the wake of publication of waste management figures for 2016 by the Environment Agency, Phil Conran of 360 Environmental gives his thoughts on waste data. Landfill data comes from two sources. HMRC produces six monthly reports...
31 August 2017
The Circular Economy – Under the Microscope
The Circular Economy is a Big Idea, but is it all that it is cracked up to be? Gev Eduljee, external affairs director at Suez Recycling and Recovery UK, gives his perspective on the hype surrounding the Circular Economy.
2 August 2017
Say ‘no’ to plastic
Organics recycling expert Charlie Trousdell of Charlie T Associates reflects on the issue of plastics contamination impacting on the organics sector. Plastic pollution risks ‘near permanent contamination of the natural ...
28 July 2017
Looking ahead: The waste industry in 2022
Paul Levett, director of Waste Transition , gives his predictions for what the UK's waste industry will look like in 2022. In July 2012, I wrote an article predicting some of the changes that we would see in the in the ...
25 July 2017
Quality first, method second
ESA's recycling policy advisor, Jakob Rindegren on the hot topic of contamination and recycling quality. In his opinion piece last week Simon Weston has written a passionate call to arms to tackle contamination in dry ...
20 July 2017
China is tightening the screw and we have to respond
Simon Ellin, chief executive of the Recycling Association, discusses the latest recycling quality crackdown by the Chinese authorities. Last year, when I visited China, it was made obvious by our hosts Shan Ying Paper and...
17 July 2017
Cuts, Costs and Contamination
Simon Weston, director of raw materials at the Confederation of Paper Industries, assesses the issue of contamination and recycling.
30 June 2017
Give producers the responsibility for packaging litter
Mark Sayers, principal consultant for producer compliance scheme Ecosurety, argues that producers of packaging are likely to have a more significant role in efforts to tackle littering. The scourge of litter affects everybody in ...
1 June 2017
What next after the Election?
Ahead of the General Election, FCC chief executive Paul Taylor considers what might lie ahead for the waste and resource sector. With the UK set to go to the polls on June 8th, and the official negotiations on Brexit ...
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