Northern Ireland’s first quarterly waste figures reveal marginal increases in the proportion amount of waste being sent to landfill, as well as the dry recycling and composting rate.

Crews working on collection rounds for waste management company Biffa are to feature in a two-part programme depicting an increase in aggression from the general public.

Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service and County Council have called for tighter regulation and planning controls for recycling plants, after seeing 40 site fires in the last five years.

The Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation has commissioned Resource Futures to undertake ascertain ‘the real aluminium packaging recycling figure’, as reporting levels dip.

The European Commission is referring Spain to the EU Court of Justice (CJEU) over its failure to close, seal and ecologically restore 61 illegal landfills that violate European legislation.

The island of Guernsey has recycled more than half of its household waste for the first time, after a kerbside recycling collection service was introduced last year.

The former Director of tyre recycling business Cartwright Projects Ltd has been given a four-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, for safety failings that led to an employee losing his forearm.

A waste officer from the Environment Agency outlines why the UK needs more enforcement to target waste crime.

The UK Green Investment Bank and investment company Equitix have announced a £14.6 million investment in a new Sheffield-based biomass plant.

Up to 80 firefighters were sent to Recycle Force’s waste facility in Corby over the weekend to stem a large blaze at its recycling storage warehouse.