It's sexy, and it has a ski slope. Danish architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group has unveiled an award-winning design for a waste-to-energy plant which, when built, will replace a 40-year old tired-looking incinerator in Copenhagen.
» Build me a planning headache (part 2)
How are we going to make the planning system work in its redesigned form? This question posed by Professor Tom Foulkes, director general of the Institution of Civil Engineers, was key to the debate that took place yesterday at a seminar hosted by the Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum.
» Build me a planning headache (part 1)
It currently takes an average of seven years for waste companies to get new facilities up and running - and four of those are spent tangled up in the planning process, according to the CBI. As the confederation's deputy director general Dr Neil Bentley aptly points out, "That is not the way to attract investment."
» Human incineration - sink or swim?
Plans to warm a public swimming pool with heat generated by a nearby crematorium were given the go-ahead in Worcestershire this month. Now me, I think it's a great idea. But not everyone agrees. The moral arguments around this kind of thing run deep.
» Yes Minister, you will be missed
Most politicians want to cling onto their seats for dear life these days, so it's somewhat refreshing when you meet one that has made a deliberate decision to hang up their hat early and leave on a high note.
» Waste Review starts to take shape
Social media may have its fair share of critics, but there's no denying it has its uses. Earlier today I put questions to Defra's deputy director of waste strategy Diana Linskey on the Government's forthcoming Waste Review and I didn't even have to leave my desk - I just tuned into my first webinar.
» Waste - just resource in the wrong place
Most of us who work in resource management and sustainability know there is an enormous amount of value locked up in the UK's waste stream. But what we lack are policy levers with teeth, ones that can really bite to effect change and release this potential.
» Holy smoke, Batman! My bin's been missed!
It didn't take long for the first bin-bashing story to make the front pages this year. Fed up with goading our posties, the weather and those pesky VAT hikes, our nation's press hounds turned their angst towards - you've guessed it - the beleaguered wheelie bin.
» RWM and CIWM: best BOGOF deal of the year
Only two days before Christmas and Santa pulls out one heck of a surprise present from his sack - news that the RWM and Futuresource exhibitions are to merge as from next year. The industry has been given a real gift - a single major annual UK-based waste show, which it had long been calling for.
» What lies beyond localism?
Last week I was fortunate enough to attend a closed meeting hosted by the Environmental Industries Commission (EIC) where Neil Thornton, who heads up Defra's waste arm, spoke about the Government's forthcoming waste review.
» Food waste - I'm hungry to recycle!
The LAWR news desk seems to have been inundated with stories of different food waste related initiatives lately.
» Litter - it's bugging me!
Launching a new advertising campaign this week, Keep Britain Tidy has revealed that the cost of keeping the country's streets clean has soared to a preposterous £858 million a year. The extent of Britain's litter problem is clearly massive but can it be reversed?
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