West Scotland MSP Stuart McMillan has written to the Scottish Government calling on it to ban large supermarkets from disposing of unsold food items.

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the measures it should implement in its revised Circular Economy Package to bring about sustainability.

The European Environmental Bureau has launched a new campaign promoting better product design, reuse, and recycling, in a bid to reduce waste and boost resource security.

Plastics Recyclers Europe is warning that increasing use of coloured PET packaging could lead to ‘a collapse in the PET & HDPE recycling industry’.

A man has been handed a seven-month prison sentence for illegally operating a waste facility near Burton-upon-Trent.

Cambridge City Council and Cambridge Sustainable Food launch new food waste campaign by sailing a punt full of food down the River Cam.

BBC Countryfile has highlighted the problem of green waste contamination in its latest episode, leading the Organics Recycling Group to call for better education on proper green waste disposal.

Nearly 80 per cent of the Scottish public support the introduction of a deposit return scheme, the Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland (APRS) has revealed.

As incineration becomes increasingly popular, Geert Cuperus from the European Recovered Fuel Organisation (ERFO) outlines the difference between SRF and RDF and the need for standardisation.

A bus running on biomethane gas (CNG) recovered from cow manure has set a new land speed record for a service bus after recording speeds of over 75 miles per hour.