Surrey County Council has taken the first steps towards creating a county-wide waste collection and disposal service, which it says could save taxpayers up to £12 million a year.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector including a skip firm’s lost licence, a jail warning for a ‘shameless’ Croydon fly-tipper and the Great British Spring Clean.

The Resource Association has called on government to recognise the importance of high-quality recycling collection as it considers new business packaging recycling targets.

Scottish Economy Secretary Keith Brown has expressed his concerns over the progress of the Green Investment Bank’s privatisation, saying it amounts to ‘fragmentation or asset stripping’.

A number of apps have placed food waste in their sights and are offering the public, retailers and restaurants a range of solutions to the problem.

A new study by packaging trade association INCPEN backs behaviour change campaigns instead of bag and bottle charges to reduce littering levels.

An Avonmouth gasification plant is to stay closed until 2018 as it plans a ‘major redevelopment’ to solve issues regarding feedstock supply.

Two men died just days before Christmas when a teenager fell into a tanker of slurry and his colleague attempted to save him, police have said.

R&WUK, the partnership between CIWM and ESA, has backed a parliamentary report calling for new environmental protection laws to be prepared before Brexit negotiations are finalised.

A pay-as-you-feel supermarket stocked with surplus food from food producers and retailers has been providing essential food for families and those in need in Sheffield across the Christmas holiday.