A man has suffered serious injuries to his arm while working late at a Viridor MRF in Greater Manchester on Sunday evening.

Waste and resource use have been identified as a key area for action in the Mayor of London’s draft London Environment Strategy, which sets a municipal recycling target of 65 per cent for 2030.

The UK’s first battery recycling facility is set to open this autumn after Ecosurety and Belmont Trading today announced a partnership that aims to make the UK self-sufficient in battery recycling as it prepares to leave the EU.

The Environment Agency has vowed to crack down on illegal waste export activity at ports after officers conducted an intelligence-gathering operation in Essex.

Strike action resulting from the ongoing dispute between Birmingham City Council and refuse workers could last until Christmas unless the council comes up with a fair settlement, trade union Unite has said.

A 16 per cent increase in shipments of higher conversion premium automotive products, helped by a closed loop recycling system, has boosted Novelis’ first quarter financial results for 2017/18.

Niels Flierman, Operations Director at DS Smith Paper, explains how consistent collections stressing quality would benefit the whole supply chain.

The Recycling Association and the Confederation of Paper Industries have urged ministers to contact the Chinese government over its proposed ban on all waste plastics and unsorted paper from 2018.

Essex-based waste company T J Cottis Transport has been fined just under £20,000 for knowingly depositing waste illegally to act as flood defences on protected farm land in Essex.

A man has died after an explosion at a recycling plant run by Innovative Environmental Solutions in the West Midlands town of Oldbury.