A strike planned by members of trade union GMB working as refuse and recycling workers for Kier Environmental Services has been called off, to allow the waste management company to address concerns raised.

Wales’s Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant has confirmed the evidence base of Wales’s Collection Blueprint is currently being independently reviewed, but defends the approach as ‘the most sustainable option’.

Materials recovery facility operators in Scotland will need to begin sampling incoming and outgoing material from 1 October 2015, it has been revealed.

Six people have been arrested for waste crime and human trafficking following dawn raids led by the Environment Agency.

Senior parliamentarians from the four major political parties have agreed that political will, rather than money or technology, is holding back the UK’s renewable energy sector.

Fife Council announces plan to trial monthly waste collections, making it the first council in Britain to do so.

The States of Guernsey has removed seven small bring banks, with businesses being given the option to continue running a further 38, following the introduction of kerbside recycling.

Police have closed Tunbridge Wells Borough Council’s waste depot in North Farm Lane as they investigate the murder of a man who was fatally stabbed there this morning.

European Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella reveals that the revised European Circular Economy Package will include more ‘country-specific’ waste targets.

The Liberal Democrats would introduce charges for all single-use bags, including biodegradable and paper ones, if they were to gain power in May.