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UK News

Dorset goes for clean sweep

Councillors in West Dorset have paved the way for countywide waste and recycling services after approving plans to share schemes with other councils from May 2014.

Stay of execution: Adjournment of rWFD Judicial Review

Defra and the Welsh Government have succeeded in postponing the Judicial Review brought by the Campaign for Real Recycling about the governments’ interpretation of the revised Waste Framework Directive.

Community Sector

Criminal wasters

With the rapid growth of the industry in recent years, illegal operators and serious organised criminals have found ways to enter lucrative waste markets. Resource learns of a new campaign in Scotland that aims to stop such crimes

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Resource awards recognise the best in partnership, community and individual achievement

Business & Industry

Smurfit Kappa Recycling hires new commercial director

Smurfit Kappa Recycling announces the appointment of Andrew Perkins as commercial director

The future of fuel

With food waste being converted into plane fuel, it looks like we might have caught up with (back to) the future. Leonie Butler considers the mile-high food-waste fuel

Europe & World

WEEE, oui!

France generates more than 14 kilogrammes of waste electrical and electronic equipment per person per year. Lucy Meek visited Envie 2e’s warehouse in Lille, North-West France, to learn how the French say ‘oui’ to WEEE.

Leading on renewables

Over the past 14 years, the Bavarian village of Wildpoldsried has undergone a remarkable transformation. It all started with the election of a new mayor in 1997.

Off the Wall

’Pee’ is for power

Most people view urine as an unpleasant waste product to be flushed out of sight and out of mind as quickly as possible, but UK scientists have recently discovered that we might be sending a valuable commodity down the drain.

Total eclipse of the arch

How much litter do you reckon is dropped on the streets of Westminster every day? Given that the council provides 1,500 residual waste bins and 300 recycling bins, it can’t be very much, can it?

Local Authority

The elephant in the room

Simon Weston, MD of Smurfit Kappa Recycling UK, comments that recycling is more than just collecting materials

Localism challenged in Cornwall

The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, has been accused by MPs of flying in the face of his own localism agenda, following a decision to allow a proposed energy-from-waste plant to be built in a small Cornish town

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Thinking inside the box

Sturdiness and durability are probably two qualities that are universally regarded as essential when it comes to a vacuum cleaner. So, you might think a cardboard...

Stay of execution: Adjournment...

Defra and the Welsh Government have succeeded in postponing the Judicial Review brought by the Campaign for Real Recycling about the governments’ interpretation of...