Two former directors of an Essex waste site have been fined £22,000 and £19,000 for exceeding waste permit and disposing the wrong type of waste into a landfill.

A new report ‘Talking Trash’ has accused multinational companies, including Coca-Cola, Unilever and Mars, of hypocrisy for their part in the plastic crisis.

The final survey from The Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT) on the impacts of Covid-19 on local authority waste services in England shows services continuing to return to normal, though disruption continues.

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Environment has announced a new secretariat and calendar of events ahead of 2021.

A round up of news from the waste and resources industry, including London Waste and Recycling Board, Prince Charles, Valpak, Acumen Waste Services and Recresco

Zero Waste Scotland has announced that Scotland’s waste-related carbon emissions for 2018 have fallen to 30 per cent below the 2011 baseline, but warns there is still ‘more to be done’ to reach the net-zero greenhouse gases target by 2045.

Developing sustainable fabrics, boosting textile recycling and bringing textile manufacturing jobs back to the UK are some of the key recommendations put forward in a new parliamentary report compiled by behaviour change charity Hubbub on sustainable fashion.

Research funding launched by Material Focus aims to find solutions to address the 500,000 tonnes of electrical waste lost each year.

The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) has announced that it will be partnering with the Circular Economy Club (CEC) to promote its circular economy certificate.

Behaviour change charity Hubbub has launched its Greenprint for a Better Britain plan to call for a sustainable Covid-19 recovery with policy recommendations targeting food waste, transport, textiles and recycling.