Coffee giant Nespresso has announced a pilot scheme allowing customers to recycle their used coffee machine capsules through their local household waste recycling service

Apple has pledged to work towards using 100 per cent recycled materials in its products, a commitment Greenpeace says puts pressure on the rest of the technology industry to follow suit.

European Metal Recycling’s Swindon site has reopened after the third fire at one of its UK sites this year broke out over the weekend.

Leeds City Council has partnered with retailer Marks & Spencer to deliver a MetalMatters recycling campaign to 350,000 households – the largest single local authority campaign run by the programme.

A possible extension of the landfill tax to punish illegal disposal and new packaging recycling targets for paper, aluminium, steel and wood were included in today’s Budget, but climate change policies were a notable omission.

The average percentage of target material being received by materials facilities in Wales rose by 1.3 per cent in the third quarter of 2016, the latest data published by WRAP suggests.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a new Director for Green Alliance, a refresh for Novelis’s ThinkCans site, new vehicles for FCC and Keep Britain Tidy Awards.

Two North Sea oil platforms are on their way to Great Yarmouth for recycling after a partnership between Veolia and oil industry logistics firm Peterson was awarded two contracts to recycle rigs at its facility in Norfolk.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector including a skip firm’s lost licence, a jail warning for a ‘shameless’ Croydon fly-tipper and the Great British Spring Clean.

The Resource Association has called on government to recognise the importance of high-quality recycling collection as it considers new business packaging recycling targets.