A 32-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after a worker died at a Birmingham recycling site last week.

LARAC, the body representing local authority recycling officers, has joined the board of OPRL, the UK’s packaging recycling label scheme – the third industry body to buy into the scheme in the past year.

A new social experiment in Manchester is to test a series of bins to see if the collection of coffee cups could be effectively recycled into new products.

A new set of guidelines on recycling is hoping to clear up once and for all what materials can and can’t be recycled at the kerbside in an attempt to remove the confusion holding back recycling the UK.

Kier Environmental Services workers have voted for industrial action following disputes over pay increases, meaning bin collections in North Norfolk could be affected.

Councils could save around £300 million every year if producers of the most littered products were made to pay levies towards their clean-up, says the Environmental Services Association (ESA).

A week to raise funds for sustainable waste management activities in communities with no formal waste management has been set up for November by WasteAid UK.

A ‘major’ fire at Palm Recycling’s King’s Lynn facility this weekend shut down operations and saw one person taken to hospital, though the blaze was confined to a small area and there were no serious injuries.

Waste management firm SUEZ hopes to develop collections of complex and hard-to-recycle products across Europe after acquiring a 30 per cent stake in community collection programme TerraCycle.

A new £142-million incinerator that will treat the waste of Edinburgh and Midlothian councils has been backed by the Green Investment Bank (GIB), with investment of £28 million.