1+ hour, 27+ min ago   (250+ words) Home / News / Environment and Energy / ‘Complex’ hazardous waste clean-up on A14 costs £500,000 The waste, including tyres and a mattress, was dumped in a ditch on the side of the A14 in Northamptonshire. The Environment Agency were called in to place booms around…...

22+ hour, 43+ min ago   (454+ words) Home / News / Legislation and Regulation / Waste site ordered to stop work over dangerous dust pollution Environment and Energy, Health and Safety, Legislation and Regulation A site visit by Environment Agency officers found Emmerson Transport Ltd in Portsmouth, Hampshire, was putting…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (400+ words) Home / News / Environment and Energy / Lincolnshire waste offenders to pay £168,000 to charity The money, which was donated as part of Enforcement Undertakings, will be used by Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust to support nature recovery and deliver environmental benefits across Lincolnshire. An…...

3+ day, 15+ min ago   (418+ words) Home / News / Environment and Energy / EA will ‘carefully consider’ claims of toxic chemicals at illegal waste sites Environment and Energy, Health and Safety, Legislation and Regulation The regulator has responded to an investigation by Sky News, which has been working…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (193+ words) Home / News / Legislation and Regulation / Environment Agency expands list of high-priority waste sites Published as part of the government’s waste crime action plan, the original watchlist covered 117 waste sites in England that the Environment Agency considered high-priority. However, the regulator…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (201+ words) Home / News / CIWM / Resource & waste infrastructure ignored and undervalued, CIWM director says In an article for environmental SCIENTIST magazine, Dan Cooke, Director of Policy, Communications and External Affairs at the CIWM, writes that government strategic planning around infrastructure ‘largely ignored…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (393+ words) Home / News / Circular Economy / Bio-based materials risk being overlooked in circular economy policy, EMF warns The foundation said many national circular economy strategies focus on finite materials, while treating bio-based materials mainly as substitutes for fossil-based or non-renewable resources. However,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (530+ words) Home / News / CIWM / Climate messaging must avoid guilt and hopelessness, says Climate Psychology Alliance CIWM, Environment and Energy Speaking on CIWM’s Beyond Waste podcast, Aspey said climate communication needs to move beyond simply giving people more facts or telling individuals…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (839+ words) Home / Opinions / Legislation and Regulation / AI, automation and welcoming a new dawn of recycling innovation The UK is currently experiencing some of the biggest changes to waste policy seen in more than two decades. From the implementation of Simpler Recycling…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (392+ words) Home / News / Circular Economy / Design Skills for Embedding Circularity: CIWM & URGE Collective prepare for design sprint The Design Skills for Embedding Circularity pilot programme is now gearing up for a design sprint that will focus on ‘designing out waste’. An…...