The Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland has recommended the Northern Ireland Environment Agency develop a ‘more rigorous’ approach to dealing with environmental crime.

A van used to illegally dump waste has been crushed by Croydon Council and displayed across the borough as a ‘warning’ to other potential fly-tippers.

Refuse fires now account for 48 per cent of all deliberately set secondary fires in Mid and West Wales, according to the fire service.

The joint conference between CIWM, ESA and the Resource Association is to consider the gap between the waste sector’s circular economy ambitions and the reality influenced by austerity.

Environmental consultancy Resource Futures have produced a green event strategy Bristol’s European Green Capital 2015 programme to encourage sustainable practice.

The Environment Agency has published new technical guidance on classifying and assessing waste, ahead of changes to the List of Waste and Hazardous Waste criteria, which will apply from June.

Up to 90 per cent of the world’s waste electronic and electrical equipment is illegally traded or dumped, according to the United Nations Environment Programme.

Swindon Borough Council is calling on those impacted by last year’s fire at Averies Recycling to submit details of the experience to a special inquiry so that ‘lessons can be learned for the future’.

The waste and resources industry calls on the incoming Conservative government to provide greater leadership on waste and resource policy.

England and Wales now have the same legal requirement for local authorities to separately collect certain dry recyclables – but uptake of separate collections in the two countries has been vastly different. Annie Kane finds out why