Environmental products and services group, Straight plc, has won a three-year contract to provide recycling and refuse services to all properties in Dorset County.

Very few were optimistic about George Osborne’s budget announcements back in March, and rightly so. Confirmation that public spending will continue to fall beyond 2015 is unhappy news for everyone.

Wales recycled almost half of its waste in 2011/12 according to the latest quarterly figures, currently well ahead of other countries in the United Kingdom.

UK businesses will have to report their emissions data from 2013, Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Democrat party, Nick Clegg, announced today (20 June) at the Rio+20 Summit.

The United Nations Conference on Sustainability, Rio+20, began today (20 June), amid cries from environmentalists that the negotiated agreement is a “colossal failure”.

Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister Alex Attwood has announced plans to introduce a statutory 60 per cent recycling target for waste collected by local authorities.

iESE’s Pan Government Waste Management Framework is now live and open to 141 councils across England, becoming the UK’s first ever framework for the sector.

HMRC has announced that it has set up a temporary landfill tax hotline

HSBC has announced today (11 June) that it is launching a five-year Water Programme to tackle the global water crisis.

HMRC has published further clarification on the changes to the landfill tax after ‘misunderstanding’ of the original brief.