Wilton Waste Management Ltd and its director Richard Stannard have been told to pay a total £67,500 after being prosecuted for improperly storing their waste and operating without correct permits.
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
Birmingham community group, Nechells, in Bloom, decorate recycling bank to promote recycling and discourage fly tipping. Local schools and playgroups took part, and packaging supplier Smurfit Kappa funded the recycling bank.
Data published on the Environment Agency’s National Packaging Waste Database shows that between January and March 2012, only 1.72 million tonnes of waste was recovered or recycled compared with 1.80 million tonnes during the same period the year before.
