Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister Alex Attwood has announced plans to introduce a statutory 60 per cent recycling target for waste collected by local authorities.

iESE’s Pan Government Waste Management Framework is now live and open to 141 councils across England, becoming the UK’s first ever framework for the sector.

HMRC has announced that it has set up a temporary landfill tax hotline

HSBC has announced today (11 June) that it is launching a five-year Water Programme to tackle the global water crisis.

HMRC has published further clarification on the changes to the landfill tax after ‘misunderstanding’ of the original brief.

Urban solid waste management is one of the most immediate and serious environmental problems confronting municipalities in developing Asian countries. Ashoka, a global association of social entrepreneurs, explains how a community composting model in Bangladesh

A new report published by the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) critisises the government for reneging on a promise to publish a green economy roadmap and warns of the perils of relaxing environmental regulations that safeguard the environment and protect the public’s heal

Local authorities (LAs) have a duty to develop and implement low-carbon plans, says a report by the government’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC).

It’s the oldest part of the UK’s recycling sector: long before kerbside collections, steel and aluminium were being reused as scrap. It’s also one of the largest: the metal industry is worth over £5.6 billion to the British economy each year, with 5.5 million tonnes of iron

Data published on the Environment Agency’s National Packaging Waste Database shows that between January and March 2012, only 1.72 million tonnes of waste was recovered or recycled compared with 1.80 million tonnes during the same period the year before.