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

Southampton-based Princess Cruises has been ordered to pay a £31-million penalty for illegal dumping of contaminated oil waste off the English coast.

Firefighters are this morning continuing to fight a fire at a hazardous waste facility operated by Remondis after it broke out on Sunday morning.

A Welsh hospital group is trialling an innovative recycling process of sterilisation wrap, diverting tonnes of medical waste from incineration every month.

A 73-year old businessman from Middlesbrough has been given a suspended sentence after negligent environmental practices caused a waste fire that destroyed his firm.

Brothers who lit two waste fires that disrupted local businesses and trainlines for weeks at a time have pleaded guilty to breaches of environmental regulations that posed a hazard to human health.

ISWA has published a roadmap for closing the world’s biggest dumpsites, a ‘global health emergency’ accounting for around 40 per cent of the world’s waste and presenting severe health risks to the four billion people that use them.

A waste boss from Southampton has been imprisoned for a series of illegal waste disposal crimes, with the sentencing coming five years after a previous conviction.

The Greek government has been fined €10 million for not upholding EU laws on waste management, and will have to pay an extra €30,000 a day until it does.

The 2016 Olympics are upon us, but it remains unclear whether the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro will receive a gold medal for environmental achievement.