The Mayor of London’s draft Environment Strategy for London must put more emphasis on waste avoidance and reducing single-use packaging, according to the London Waste and Recycling Board.

Environment agency officers visited more than 100 sites across Berkshire and Buckinghamshire this week as part of a crack-down on waste crime and and safe waste disposal by businesses.

A new online tool has been developed by the On-Pack Recycling Scheme to make it easier to label packaging accurately for recyclability, and indicates the most recyclable material choices.

A man has been killed following an incident with a moving vehicle at an EGGER chipboard production and recycling plant in East Ayrshire, Scotland.

Visually impaired sisters Mary and Jane Phillips can now identify their new wheelie bins after being modified by Veolia, with the addition of braille-like holes.

The Welsh Government has set the rates for its new devolved Landfill Disposals Tax, maintaining the UK’s standard rate but adding a new band for unauthorised disposals to provide a deterrent against waste crime.

The director of North-West recycler Fresco Environmental has been given a suspended jail sentence after a worker was crushed to death by a falling bale of carpet last year.

Environment Secretary Michael Gove has launched a call for evidence on how reward and return schemes for beverage containers in England could help to tackle the nation’s littering problem.

The extent of the incredible change in technology and how it is recycled in the 10 years since UK WEEE regulations were introduced, has been detailed by the European Recycling Platform.

Waste associations have written to Resources Minister Therese Coffey calling on Defra to "take urgent action" to support the recycling industry following China’s ban on the import of all scrap plastics and unsorted waste paper.