A partnership has developed new technology to extract unused paint with an industrial vacuum cleaner, with the companies behind it hoping that the process will ensure progress towards a circular economy.

A Dorset waste operator has been hit with a suspended jail sentence and a £20,000 fine after running a ‘haphazard’ illegal waste oil storage and processing plant in the Dorset countryside for over a decade.

Pollution caused by anaerobic digestion plants in Bedfordshire and Devon have seen the Environment Agency secure fines for negligent mismanagement.

M&S has reduced its stores’ food waste by nine per cent through its charity redistribution schemes, according to its 2016 ‘Plan A’ report.

Members of the UK public are being asked to spend two minutes picking litter from a beach, mountain, river or woods as part of the first national #2minutebeachclean Day.

Representatives from 30 countries are meeting in Glasgow this week as part of an INTERPOL conference exploring new ways of tackling waste crime.

A Darlington man has been jailed for three years after failing to pay back profits gained from illegal waste crime.

The Environment Agency has obtained a first-of-its-kind Criminal Behaviour Order, banning a self-employed builder from Somerset from handling waste for five years.

More than 8,000 tonnes of rubbish was collected by nearly 800,000 volunteers during the Ocean Conservancy’s 2015 International Coastal Cleanup.

The organisers of Glastonbury Festival have been ordered to pay £31,000 in fines and costs after untreated human waste escaped from a temporary storage tank and polluted a nearby river.