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Waste planning news and policy covering recycling, energy from waste, composting, landfill and prosecutions.

Government awards glass recycling contract
A waste management company that spent £1m upgrading a recycling plant has been rewarded with a big government contract.
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People want litterers criminalised
Litter louts should face criminal prosecution and be named and shamed on social media while packaging companies should be taxed, pollsters have found.
Report damns plastic packaging
Plastic packaging is failing to prevent a food waste crisis and may be creating more problems, warns a new study from Friends of the Earth (FoE).
Nestle in 100% recyclability goal
One of the world's biggest consumer brands plans to make every item of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025.
ESA promotes council competition
Cash-starved councils should jack up competition for waste services, suggests the Environmental Services Association (ESA).
Strike over 'rubbish management' averted
Waste-collection staff have called off a strike in a dispute over "rubbish management" and "Big Brother-style cameras" on council refuse lorries.
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Council prosecutes landfill operator
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Council hives off waste services
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Brits want a deposit return scheme
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Industry critical of DRS
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Waste staff axe plastic
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Bigger fines for litter louts
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Litter kills millions of animals
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Geocycle hits ten million mark
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Court backs waste project
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Housing group focuses on recycling
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Fire safety condition on wood recycling site removed
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Changes to feedstock for agricultural AD facility allowed
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Biomass boiler approved retrospectively subject to noise mitigation
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Materials recycling centre approved in connection with railway construction
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Extension to IBA recycling centre approved
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Third digestate lagoon approved to serve AD plant
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Biomass boilers approved at former colliery site
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Proposals for municipal waste transfer facility approved
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Extended operating hours at waste transfer station refused, contrary to recommendation
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Amendments approved to soil handling facility near Leicester
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Council resolves to make revocation order to protect cursus
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Plea on apprenticeship levy
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Time extension granted for sand and gravel quarry affected by economic downturn
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New owner seeks amendments to quarry restoration provisions
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Aggregate depot next to housing redevelopment site to be retained for temporary period
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Derby students dig in