Businesses to pay £1.1bn in new packaging fees to councils ESG News Councils in England are set to receive a share of £1.1 billion in recycling funding taken from money charged to companies for the packaging they produce. Under the current system, local councils have footed the bill for disposing of items such as milk bottles, cereal boxes and soup tins using taxpayers’ money. But the new [...]
Renewi: Waste disposal firm gets green light to sell garbage UK arm to Biffa Business Waste management firm Renewi said it had been given the green light by regulators to sell its UK Municipal business to Biffa. In a statement to markets, Renewi said it had obtained approval from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for the £125m deal, which was announced in May and is expected to increase the [...]
Trash talk: Recycling boss Bruce Bratley on why we need to talk about rubbish Opinion Waste disposal can be revolutionary, as First Mile boss Bruce Bratley tells Lucy Kenningham
Renewi pays Biffa to help it exit ‘unpredictable’ UK waste market May 30, 2024 Waste disposal giant Renewi has branded the UK "unpredictable" as it offloaded its loss-leading British municipal division to competitor Biffa alongside a set of full year results in which the firm slid to into the red.
Waste firm fined almost £70K after cyanide leak kills hundreds of fish February 23, 2024 The company was penalised after an incident in 2018, during which a container was ruptured causing "hundreds of litres of a liquid" to escape