DCLG has announced the 46 projects that have been awarded Recycling Reward Scheme funding, and has inflated the fund by a further £6.1 million ‘due to its popularity’.

Bedfordshire waste management firm Monoworld Limited has been ordered to pay more than £23,000 for the illegal shipment of waste.

Eunomia is calling on government to introduce a deposit-refund scheme for drinks packaging and introduce levies on chewing gum and cigarettes to reduce litter.

David Squelch, the man suspected of murdering a colleague at Cory Environmental’s waste depot in Tunbridge Wells, has had his first court appearance.

Sheffield City Council is consulting on introducing shared bins to high-density areas, amongst other proposals, in a bid to save £3.4 million by 2017.

The CLG Committee is calling on government to assign a portion of any increase in tobacco levies to local councils to help cover the cost street cleaning.

Friends of the Earth Europe has released a new report calling on the European Commission to make resource efficiency central to policymaking decisions.

The Dorset Waste Partnership is to continue collecting recycling via a two-stream collection system after finding separate collections are not ‘economically practicable’.

Perpetrators of certain waste crimes could face unlimited fines after a new regulation came into force this week lifting the cap on magistrates’ fining powers.

The Material Security Working Group has introduced a parliamentary paper reiterating calls for the establishment of a central Office for Resource Management.