The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has released its first ‘Digest of Waste and Resource Statistics’ collating official UK waste statistics for ‘ease of use’.

Thirteen teams of 16 to 24-year-olds across the UK have been awarded £500 to develop local sustainability campaigns in Lloyds Banking Group’s ‘Money for Life’ challenge.

A new power plant that recovers used cooking oil to produce electricity has been officially opened in North Yorkshire.

New data published for the second quarter of 2014/15 shows that, for the first time since 2009/10, household recycling rates have stalled in Northern Ireland.

Britain could create up to 517,000 jobs by achieving its circular economy ambitions, a new study by WRAP and Green Alliance has found.

Zero Waste Scotland has released a report highlighting how Scotland can ‘capitalise on the industrial and economic opportunities of a more circular economy’.

The Centre for Process Innovation is leading a European project that aims to turn food waste into graphene and renewable hydrogen.

The Department of Energy & Climate Change has stripped Nuclear Management Partners of its £9-billion contract to clean up the Sellafield nuclear site.

SITA UK is to hold public consultations on its proposed MRF, RDF facility and waste depot in Aberdeen.

Central government responds to the EFRA Committee's inquiry on waste management, and says it currently has ‘no plans to reintroduce statutory recycling targets for local authorities’