Collection targets for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) for 2017 have been missed, according to the latest statistics from the Environment Agency (EA).

Plans for Conwy Borough Council to bring in four-weekly residual waste collections have been delayed due to residents having problems with the system.

The UK’s annual lamp recycling rate for 2017 has increased to 48.5 per cent, up from 47.5 per cent in 2016, according to data released by the Environment Agency yesterday (1 March).

Enfield Council is on the road to greener infrastructure with the news that it has begun resurfacing its roads using asphalt made from recycled plastics.

EU ambassadors have endorsed the provisional agreement on the four legislative proposals that make up the Circular Economy Package, including a target of a 60 per cent municipal recycling rate.

The Welsh Government has approved £7.5 million of funding to help local authorities further improve recycling services, just days after Wales was once again revealed to be the UK’s best recycling nation.

EU-wide legislation on single-use plastic is on the cards for this summer, according to comments by the European Commission’s Vice President Frans Timmermans.

Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee has criticised the government’s inadequate response to its ‘Plastic bottles: Turning back the plastic tide’ report and lack of action of preventing plastic bottle waste.

Blackpool Borough Council has announced that it will be bringing its domestic waste service back in-house when its current contract with waste management company Veolia ends in April 2019.

A new plastic-focused campaign from the WRAP says the world is fast becoming a ‘plastic planet’ - and hopes to engage consumers to improve recycling rates in order to combat this.