Hull City Council has approved plans to procure a new long-term waste disposal contract worth around £56 million after the collapse of its contract with Impetus Waste Management last year.

The UK is not doing enough to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals, says a new report by the Environmental Audit Committee.

CIWM have released a Resource Productivity Manifesto calling on all political parties to commit to resource productivity measures in their manifestos ahead of June’s general election.

The Parliamentary Estate has seen its total amount of recycled waste increase to 64 per cent of its total waste collected in 2016.

A new organisation has been created to manage single-tier waste services across four Surrey councils, with the potential for more councils to join in the future.

Associated Waste Management has been named as the preferred bidder for Bradford Council’s new 12-year waste treatment contract, with a ‘significant portion’ of the waste collected annually going to SSE’s Ferrybridge facility.

Activities regarding waste and resources will be brought “somewhat to a pause” following Tuesday’s announcement of a snap election, Resources Minister Therese Coffey admitted yesterday at a session of the EFRA Committee.

The government has completed the sale of the UK Green Investment Bank to controversial Australian investment firm Macquarie Group in a £2.3 billion deal.

At least 30 people have died and rescue efforts are continuing following a landslide at a landfill site in Sri Lanka, which destroyed nearly 80 homes – the second major landfill disaster in as many months.

Introducing a deposit-return scheme for plastic bottles in the UK would damage the efficiency of council collections and require a new collection infrastructure to be introduced, according to LARAC.