EMR has revealed that a lithium-ion battery was the likely cause of a blaze at one of its sites in the South East last week.

Materials giant UPM has designed a recyclable cosmetics jar aimed at slashing the use of fossil-based plastics.

Waste giant FCC Environment has called for a national programme to boost reuse of bicycles. The firm published a white paper ...

Preston-based metals specialist Global Ardour Recycling has bought scrap exporter Adelphi. The Lancashire firm said the ...

A senior waste professional has branded battery-related fire risk as the most dangerous issue he's come across in the sector.

A local authority in Scotland has used recycled plastic on a job to to resurface a highway. North Lanarkshire Council ...

A court has fined a waste management company £270,000 after a worker was injured while cleaning a piece of machinery.

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Waste and design professionals are to open their workspaces to each other in a bid to boost reuse and recycling.

Ross Haggart, chief operating officer for regulation, business and environment at SEPA, said: “Research from Zero Waste ...

Chemical recycling company Endolys has announced plans to develop a £120m plastic film processing facility in the North East.