Casework

Waste planning applications, appeals, court cases and ombudsman reports

Recycling

Revised wording of recycling plant's remediation conditions approved

8 October 2019, by Ruth Amundson

An application seeking to revise the wording of conditions on a recycling and bulking facility at Abermule, Newtown, has been approved by Powys County...

Redevelopment of recycling facility approved

8 October 2019, by Ruth Amundson

Essex County Council has approved an application for a new 1,800-square-metre plastics recycling building, staff welfare cabins, parking space, culvert...

Energy from waste

Peel Environmental submits plans for plastics-to-hydrogen plant

14 October 2019, by Maxine Perella

Peel Environmental has submitted plans to build a £7m waste plastic-to-hydrogen facility at its Protos site near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire.

Energy recovery facility would help reduce local capacity gap

8 October 2019, by Ruth Amundson

Noise and traffic from a west Midlands energy-recovery centre would not undermine the amenity of local residents, an inspector has held, and significant...

Composting

Waste recycling and AD facility held to be unacceptable in green belt

23 September 2019, by Ruth Amundson

A materials recycling facility (MRF) and anaerobic digestion (AD) facility at a former mineral extraction site at Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, has...

Environment Agency to review biowaste sector

23 September 2019, by Maxine Perella

The Environment Agency (EA) is to launch a review into permitted waste sites in the biowaste sector as it looks to embed recent legislative changes to...

Landfill

Packaging: Is a plastic tax the way forward?

4 October 2019, by Gareth Simkins

Feelings ran high when four experts came together in Birmingham to discuss whether the UK government should introduce a tax or extended producer responsibility...

Scotland makes strides in decarbonising waste

23 September 2019, by Maxine Perella

The carbon impact of Scotland’s household waste has fallen by 15% over a seven-year period, according to latest figures from the Scottish Environment Protection...

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