Fly-tippers in Wales could be subject to on-the-spot fixed-penalty notices of up to £400, after the government proposed new, quicker punishments to ward off waste criminals.

Sheffield City Council leaders will vote next week whether to end the authority’s waste contract with Veolia 19 years early.

Two North Sea oil platforms are on their way to Great Yarmouth for recycling after a partnership between Veolia and oil industry logistics firm Peterson was awarded two contracts to recycle rigs at its facility in Norfolk.

Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee has written to Business Secretary Greg Clark to call for added scrutiny over the sale of the Green Investment Bank to Macquarie.

The Textile Recycling Association is calling for more to be done to tackle fake charity clothing collection banks, following a BBC exposé.

WRAP is calling for a united effort after it found that £13 billion of edible food was wasted by UK households in 2015, a situation Friends of the Earth calls ‘the definition of a scandal’.

Businesses from the grocery industry met WRAP goals on manufacturing and retail waste over the course of Courtauld Commitment 3, but failed to make a dent on household food waste, results have shown.

WRAP has published results for its three-year agreement aiming to reduce food and packaging waste and improve waste management in the hospitality sector.

Simply Cups, the UK’s only paper cup recycling scheme, has partnered with a company that claims to have made a takeaway cup that is recyclable at traditional paper mills.

Greater producer responsibility, more consistent recycling systems and the revisitation of pay as you throw should all be considered to make English recycling more efficient, says the Green Alliance.