Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service and County Council have called for tighter regulation and planning controls for recycling plants, after seeing 40 site fires in the last five years.

Having bigger bins for residual waste can lower recycling rates, according to a new report published by the Waste & Recycling Action Programme.

Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole councils have published a new draft Waste Plan that outlines the local sustainable waste management strategy for the next 15 years.

Up to 80 firefighters were sent to Recycle Force’s waste facility in Corby over the weekend to stem a large blaze at its recycling storage warehouse.

Data measuring the input and output of material recovery facilities across England and Wales has been published for the first time today by WRAP.

Torridge District Council will resume recycling services to its 31,500 households on Monday, two weeks after its collections contractor entered administratoin.

Thurrock Council will remove residents’ recycling bins if they are repeatedly contaminated, as part of a new ‘three strikes and you’re out’ policy.

New WRAP report finds local authorities paid a median fee of £6 for every tonne of waste sent to material recovery facilities in 2014/15, but that some councils pay MRFs to take material, while others are paid for it.

Residents across Bath and North East Somerset are being warned that they may experience irregular waste collections over the next few days after waste collection vehicles overheat.

Rochdale council agrees to switch from alternate weekly collections of residual waste and recycling to three-weekly collections, in a bid to increase recycling and save money.