A new report by the Green Alliance identifies the advantages of switching to circular business models to deliver risk-adjusted returns.

Scotland’s Zero Waste Taskforce will release a household recycling charter in summer to make collections ‘more consistent’.

Flintshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport City and Wrexham councils are to receive £3 million from the Welsh Government to improve recycling infrastructure and increase recycling rates.

As Recycle Week begins, WRAP is urging consumers to check whether items are recyclable before throwing them away, after finding that nearly a third of people are confused about recycling.

The London Borough of Ealing has agreed to move from weekly kerbside-sort recycling collections to fortnightly co-mingled collections in a bid to increase recycling and save money.

Bunzl Catering Supplies, Benders Paper Cups and BASIS have joined the Simply Cups paper cup recycling service, which now includes five additional materials.

The European Parliament Environment Committee has voted through a draft report on the circular economy, which calls on the European Commission to increase recycling targets to ‘at least’ 70 per cent.

Environmental charity Hubbub has launched ‘Neat Streets’, a project in London to find the most effective ways of combating littering and bringing about behaviour change.

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the measures it should implement in its revised Circular Economy Package to bring about sustainability.

A fire broke out at an Inverness waste transfer station, run by SUEZ environnement, last night, after a ‘pressurised canister’ caught alight.