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COVID-19: Waste sector operatives must be classed as “key-workers”

19th March 2020

Coronavirus / ESA / local authorities / Waste Collections

UK recycling rate decreases by 0.5%

19th March 2020

Defra / Local Authority Collected Waste Statistics / packaging / Recycling

Proposed Sale of Viridor for £4.2 billion

19th March 2020

acquisitions / Pennon Group / Viridor

Council issues 5 step Coronavirus waste collection guidance

18th March 2020

Clinical Waste / Coronavirus / east devon district council / hazardous waste

Veolia Recycling and Energy Recovery facility starts low carbon heat delivery in City of Leeds

18th March 2020

Leeds City Council / Recycling and Energy Recovery Facility / Veolia

“Hard to recycle” single use plastics to be banned in Wales

18th March 2020

Litter / Ocean Plastics / plastic / Single-Use / Wales

Global Recycling Day 2020 honours recycling heroes across the world

18th March 2020

Global Recycling Day / Recycling

Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme pushed back to 2022

18th March 2020

DRS / packaging / Scotland

WRAP’s Food Waste Reduction Roadmap expands focus to farms

17th March 2020

Farming / Food Waste / Surplus Food / WRAP

Hull man fined for illegal transport of waste

17th March 2020

Environment Agency / Waste Crime

Biffa to unlock an estimated £1.25bn of “green economy” investment

17th March 2020

Biffa / Climate Change / Green Economy / infrastructure / Investment

Iceland announces 29% reduction in plastic usage

16th March 2020

Iceland / packaging / plastic / Supermarkets

Cardiff finds 4,000 incidents of contamination since Pink Sticker scheme launch

16th March 2020

Cardiff City Council / contamination / Fines

UK must invest £7.5bn in infrastructure to deal with plastic waste

16th March 2020

infrastructure / Peel Environmental / plastic

MPs relaunch e-waste and circular economy inquiry

13th March 2020

Circular Economy / E-Waste / EAC / WEEE

European Commission adopts new Circular Economy Action Plan

12th March 2020

Circular Economy / circular economy action plan / Europe / European Commission

Budget Reactions | Plastic packaging tax makes the UK a “lodestar” in new net-zero age

12th March 2020

Budget / Climate Change / EPR / packaging / plastic

University of Gloucestershire ditches paper prospectuses

11th March 2020

paper / plastic / reduce / The University of Gloucestershire

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