The annual landfill cost to Welsh local authorities has dropped by more than £13 million since 2011/12, equating to a decrease of more than 23 per cent, figures obtained by BBC Wales have found.

Anglesey will decide on Monday whether to introduce three-weekly bin collections as a way of meeting ambitious Welsh recycling targets.

The three-week recycling disruption in Bath and North East Somerset caused by strike action has ended after union members accepted a revised offer from Kier yesterday.

The Kent Resource Partnership has been awarded funding of over £110,000 to support its plastics and metals recycling communications.

Better waste and resource management could keep global warming below two degrees Celsius, but its role has been underplayed in COP21 discussions, WRAP CEO Liz Goodwin said today.

A plastics economy based on a circular economy approach could ‘transform’ the plastics industry and ‘drastically reduce’ its environmental impact, according to a report by the World Economic Forum and Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

A new report published by the European Environment Agency draws attention to both the benefits and challenges in transitioning to a circular economy.

The managing director of a Merseyside waste disposal firm has admitted safety failings after a worker was crushed to death inside a compactor machine in December 2010.

A record total of £284,000 in fines was handed down to companies and individuals by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) in 2014/15.

EU member states should rethink their waste management funding to reduce greenhouse gases and help fight climate change, Eunomia has said at a low-carbon economy conference in Brussels.