With the help of online reuse platform Warp It, the Royal Free London has saved £242,681 in 19 months, winning the Reuse category of the NHS Sustainability Awards.

Municipal waste data from Eurostat shows that the UK’s recycling rate remains some way short of the EU’s top recycling nations, though it performs better when it comes to diverting waste from landfill.

Dolav's plastic pallet box has UN approval for the safe transport of lead-acid batteries and other dangerous goods

Sainsbury’s and TOMRA are teaming up to trial the first supermarket return scheme for drinks containers that includes glass – as Scottish support for an ‘all-in’ DRS builds.

The trade body British Glass has written an open letter to the Scottish Government raising issues with the inclusion of glass in Scotland’s proposed deposit return scheme.

David Ward Jnr, head of Ward SP, wants demolition and construction companies to maximise their recycling.

Construction company Willmott Dixon is using MacRebur’s plastic road technology in its new Ashton Rise development in Bristol.

Angus Council has acquired a new green waste shredder from CRJ Services that allows the council to shred almost three times more green waste as previously.

A convicted waste criminal will now serve a total of 16 years after failing to pay back £1.3 million.

A survey of 5,000 UK householders suggests thousands of tonnes of repairable appliances go to landfill each year as people don’t know what to do with them when they break.