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Waste planning applications, appeals, court cases and ombudsman reports
Recycling
Secretary of state directs that recycling use near SSSI not EIA development
Somerset County Council has approved an application for a facility to recycle and recover hardcore, road planings, topsoil, wood and green waste at a 1.3-hectare...
Crusher noise found to intrude on park tranquillity
The crushing and grading of demolition waste was refused at a builder's yard in south Wales, after an inspector concluding that it was harmful to the living...
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Recycling yard extension allowed, but office extension must be removed
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Additional vehicle numbers held to be compatible with AONB designation
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Denbighshire consults on new transfer station to streamline operations
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Specialist waste transfer station approved on industrial site
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Extension to recycling facility approved contrary to officer recommendation
Energy from waste
Viridor partners with Dutch firm for Scottish gas-to-fuel project
Viridor has signed an agreement to work with Dutch company Carbonoro to deliver a gas clean-up system to transform landfill gas into transport fuel.
£150m gasification plant gets green light
Peel Environmental has secured planning approval to build a bio-substitute natural gas (BioSNG) plant at its Protos site near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire.
Composting
Waste recycling and AD facility held to be unacceptable in green belt
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
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
Temporary inert waste recycling allowed in green belt in order to reclaim derelict site
North Lanarkshire Council has approved a proposal to import and recycle inert waste as a means of restoring a derelict former brickworks at Coatbridge,...
Small-scale waste deposit scheme allowed
A partly retrospective application for the deposit of 600 tonnes of inert excavation waste on land used as a paddock has been approved by Derbyshire County...