• News 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 Consultation launched on new West Sussex Energy Recovery Facility 11th March 2020 energy from waste / Grundon Waste Management / Viridor Europe sets out green “future-ready” Industrial Strategy 11th March 2020 European Union / industrial strategy First 1 2 … 197 198 199 … 306 307 Last