Having bigger bins for residual waste can lower recycling rates, according to a new report published by the Waste & Recycling Action Programme.

Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole councils have published a new draft Waste Plan that outlines the local sustainable waste management strategy for the next 15 years.

Business Secretary Sajid Javid has announced plans to cut £10 billion of ‘unnecessary’ regulation, including that for the waste sector, over the next five years.

Glasgow Airport has increased its recycling rate to over 90 per cent after implementing Zero Waste Scotland’s Resource Efficiency Pledge.

Data measuring the input and output of material recovery facilities across England and Wales has been published for the first time today by WRAP.

Nine companies have received a share of £6-million funding from the Department of Energy & Climate Change to test heat network projects across the UK.

ArcelorMittal, LanzaTech, and Primetals Technologies have announced that they are to build ‘Europe’s first-ever commercial-scale production facility to create bioethanol from waste gases produced during the steelmaking process’.

A round-up of waste and resources news, including an eco-friendly tennis ball, recycled carpet and landfill donations.

The MetalMatters campaign has delivered a ‘positive and lasting’ effect on metal recovery from kerbside collections says a report by organisers Alupro.

MEP Angélique Delahaye is to bring forward an amendment at tomorrow’s plenary session on the circular economy that backs a pan-European petition to make supermarkets donate unsold edible food to charities.