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HMRC has failed to recover a meaningful amount of money from waste criminals since it was given powers to tax waste disposed of at unauthorised sites four years ago, E&T can reveal.

Two sector experts have highlighted what they see as they key aspects of Defra’s response analysis to its EPR consultation.

Logistics in a post-Covid environment are proving challenging for the waste sector, declared Dr Simon Ellin yesterday.

The Hook and Ladder restaurant, which recently opened in New Britain, offers a 25% discount to all firefighters, active or retired, and 15% discount to police officers, nurses, members of the military and other first responders.

Graeme Vickery, senior policy advisor at Defra, says the government could set material-specific targets for WEEE recyclers.

Joseph Doherty, the managing director of Re-Gen Waste, has been appointed to the UK’s Advisory Committee on Packaging.

BBC News By Angus Crawford image copyrightGetty Images The boy was probably only a teenager. Rummaging through bags of plastic dumped by the side of the road, he was looking for bottles to sell. In amongst the rubbish, were plastic bags from some of the UKs biggest supermarkets, packaging for cheese, ham and beef burgers. Our investigation in March 2020 in the southern Turkish City of Adana found that although plastic that had been carefully sorted and separated by households in the UK was bei...

A woman walks through floodwater in Northwich town centre on Thursday Credit: Christopher Furlong /Getty Images Europe  Storm Christoph comes after a difficult year for the Environment Agency in which it struggled with the aftermath of last years winter floods and the Covid-19 pandemic. Staff shortages throughout 2020 saw up to one in five staff absent, and last week chief executive Sir James Bevan admitted the agency had had “a tough autumn” leading it to miss its flood defence repair t...