All further scheduled industrial action by refuse workers in Birmingham belonging to the trade union Unite has been called off after Birmingham City Council approved an agreement to bring the strike to an end on Friday 15 March.

Greener UK states that the ‘increasingly ominous prospect’ of leaving the EU without a deal ‘poses potentially dire consequences for the environment, in the short and longer term’ across all areas of environmental policy.

The council-owned Bristol Waste Company has launched its #WasteNothing Challenge, asking 50 households to track their waste and recycling for a year.

Vehicle manufacturer Romaquip has added four more local authorities to its growing portfolio of contracts for its Kerb-Sort recycling collection vehicles.

New reforms, including a deposit return scheme (DRS), could see aluminium recycling almost double if implemented, preventing around £50 million of wasted resources each year, according to a new report by environmental think tank Green Alliance.

The one-day operation last Thursday (7 March) discovered six sites where waste had been burned, three where construction and demolition waste had been stored, one that contained household waste and one that was operating as a scrapyard.

The Unite trade union has called off the Birmingham bin strike scheduled for today (8 March) after a new deal was put forward to bring the dispute to a close.

The Indian Government has banned all imports of solid plastics waste as part of a drive to tackle pollution and littering.

Julia Turner, Executive Director of the Wood Recyclers' Association, gives an update on the market for waste wood.

The Surrey Waste Partnership has been making strides with a recycling programme to tackle the difficult problem of waste management in flats. Will Simpson finds out more