An underground bin system in Cambridge’s new district of Eddington has entered operation - the largest of its kind in the UK.

Refuse workers in Doncaster belonging to the union Unite will be balloted for strike action in the coming days in a dispute over job cuts, with strike action slated to take place over the Christmas period.

Supermarket chain Costcutter has made a donation of £650,000 to resource efficiency charity WRAP as part of a set of enforcement undertakings announced by the Environment Agency.

Prevention and recycling must underpin the EU’s plastics strategy to reduce marine plastics pollution, according to EU Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella.

Increased refurbishment and remanufacture in the European furniture sector could create up to 157,000 jobs and save around six million tonnes of CO2 emissions, according to a study by the European Environmental Bureau.

The UK public is becoming increasingly confused and frustrated with the lack of harmonisation between recycling collections and difficult-to-understand labelling, according to a new Viridor study released today.

Less than three per cent of Kent’s household waste was sent to landfill in 2016/17, according to provisional performance data from the Kent Resource Partnership (KRP)’s annual report released today.

Unite, the trade union, and Birmingham city council face a protracted legal battle as a High Court ruling on Wednesday labeled the council’s issue of redundancy notices to 113 Grade Three refuse workers as ‘unlawful’, with strike action suspended for the immediate future.

A circular economy could reduce London’s waste by 60 per cent by 2041 and should be implemented in order to combat falling recycling rates, according to a London Assembly Environment Committee report.

Businesses from the Consumer Goods Forum and Champions 12.3 coalition have issued a call to action to simplify and standardise food date labels worldwide by 2020 in a bid to reduce food waste as Champions 12.3 releases a progress report on global efforts to reduce food waste.