With the 2020 recycling targets creeping up on us, Charles Newman talks to Friends of the Earth’s Michael Warhurst about boosting recycling rates, reducing material use, and bringing about real change in how we view resources

The EU could recycle 62 per cent of its plastic by adopting resource efficient policies, says Plastics Recyclers Europe.

Environment Agency and LIFE+ launch EQual programme, CeDO launches recycled bin bag, Biffa IWM changes name and more...

With more than 100 anaerobic digestion plants up and running in the UK, the technology is becoming increasingly important to the country’s energy (and waste treatment) mix. Libby Peake learns how Biffa uses black bag waste to feed its Wanlip site

Our habits don’t wholly reflect the well-worked mantra ‘waste as a resource’. Charles Newman casts an evaluator’s eye over our rubbish heap

Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority announces the winners of its leftover food competition ‘Make 28 Taste Great’.

The European Parliament has voted to cap the use of crop-based biofuels to six per cent of transport fuel.

Attendees at the RWM Conference in Birmingham this week got a preview of the new ‘edoc’ waste transfer note system.

Fracking would not compromise the UK’s climate change targets if accompanied by the right measures, according to a new DECC report.

DECC and John Lewis to print lifetime electricity running costs on domestic appliances as part of a new labelling trial.