David Squelch, the man suspected of murdering a colleague at Cory Environmental’s waste depot in Tunbridge Wells, has had his first court appearance.

Two new innovations in coffee packaging have been announced, with KFC launching an edible coffee cup and Novamont producing a compostable espresso capsule.

The CLG Committee is calling on government to assign a portion of any increase in tobacco levies to local councils to help cover the cost street cleaning.

The six finalists of the Bio-based Material of the Year award have been named by the nova-Institute for Ecology and Innovation.

Plastic film reprocessing company PlasRecycle has become a full member of the Resource Association.

The Material Security Working Group has introduced a parliamentary paper reiterating calls for the establishment of a central Office for Resource Management.

SITA UK will henceforth be known as SUEZ environnement, the name of its parent company, as the group unites its subsidiary brands under one name.

A strike planned by members of trade union GMB working as refuse and recycling workers for Kier Environmental Services has been called off, to allow the waste management company to address concerns raised.

Materials recovery facility operators in Scotland will need to begin sampling incoming and outgoing material from 1 October 2015, it has been revealed.

Six people have been arrested for waste crime and human trafficking following dawn raids led by the Environment Agency.