Was the Resources and Waste Strategy worth the wait?

Just before Christmas, Defra published England’s first new waste strategy for 11 years.

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Challenges lie ahead for the waste wood sector

Over the past five years, the waste wood sector has seen unprecedented growth as well as far-reaching changes to legislation, guidance and processes, altering the shape of our industry as we know it.

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How TOMRA is developing its technology to serve a growing demand for high quality recyclate

Whether it’s sorting, mining, recycling or food, the TOMRA brand is known across the world.

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Turning wood recycling in Brighton into a charitable nationwide business

It’s nearly 20 years since the opening of the country’s first community wood recycling project in Brighton. Elizabeth Green from Community Wood Recycling explains how the idea has developed into a nationwide network

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When the chips are down

Andy Hill, chair of the Wood Recyclers Association, gives an overview of the UK’s waste wood market

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Storage rules forced wood recyclers to close

Wood recycling in the UK has always been at the mercy of a seasonal cycle where tonnages peak for storage in the summer followed by a rise in demand for off-take during winter. Last year this caused bigger issues than ever. Andy Hill, chair of the Wood Recyclers Association, reports.

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Bed bug

With one estimate that 62,000 mattresses are being sent to landfill every week in the south east of England alone, cowboy recycling operators rife and many legal ones going out of business, it’s no surprise that one observer talks of ‘a massive mattress problem’. Maxine Perella reports

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How green is the demolition sector when it comes to waste?

Special Report

With so much demolition arisings produced by the construction and demolition sectors, their recycling practices are inevitably under the spotlight. Claire Col takes the industry pulse from its trade body

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A farewell to arms and THAT document

In his final article for Recycling & Waste World on behalf of the Wood Recycling Association, Peter Butt, outgoing executive director of the Wood Recycling Association, explains the association's concerns over the lack of industry involvement in the generic guidance document published by the Environment Services Association regarding proposed stockpile limits for material reprocessors.

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Optimising production and increasing profits

With the recycling sector estimated to be worth around nine billion pounds, high quality recyclable materials are now commodities with baling technologies sitting at the heart of this growing industry. Claire Col reports.

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Small scale biomass projects blaze a trail

Matt Drew, MD of Saxlund, argues why locally-based sustainable, small scale biomass systems, combined with heat and power, can achieve more than some may believe.

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Greater Manchester closes composting loop

With the largest waste management contract in Europe, the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority has opted for in-vessel composting to ‘Revive’ the food and garden waste in Greater Manchester. Rebecca Sutcliffe, communications and communities officer with Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority, explains why the GMWDA opted to go down the IVC route.