Apple has agreed to pay $450,000 to California regulators amid accusations of mishandling of electronic waste in its Silicon Valley facilities.

The UK public is more satisfied with their local waste and recycling collections than any other council service, according to a survey published by APSE.

Switching to source-separated collections could save Welsh councils over a million pounds a year, according to research carried out by WRAP Cymru.

EAC Chair Mary Creagh and four other politicians are to test the Winnow food waste smart meter in their homes as part of the ongoing Sainsbury’s Waste less, Save more initiative.

Tesco and Sainsbury’s, two of the UK’s largest supermarkets, have pledged to ban plastic cotton buds and will replace plastic stems with paper in their own brand products by the end of 2017.

A new report by Eunomia Research & Consulting suggests that investment in advanced conversion technologies (ACTs) may still be beneficial, despite the technology’s mixed track record.

Bristol City Council has launched a campaign in a bid to make Bristol measurably cleaner by 2020, in partnership with its arms-length Bristol Waste Company.

Europe has reached a ‘turning point’ in the ‘absurd unethical and anti-economic situation’ of food waste, according to Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis.

In setting up the Bristol Waste Company, Bristol City Council is getting its recycling into ship-shape conditions.

A new bill detailing plans to devolve the landfill disposals tax to Wales from April 2018 is due to be laid out before the Welsh National Assembly.