Welsh local authorities recycled, reused and composted 56 per cent of municipal waste in the 12 months to December 2014, new figures have revealed.

Refuse fires now account for 48 per cent of all deliberately set secondary fires in Mid and West Wales, according to the fire service.

South Lanarkshire Council has begun delivering new food waste and recycling bins to residents ahead of a recycling service overhaul, which will see paper collected separately for the first time.

The Welsh Government has introduced a new Environment (Wales) Bill, which includes a ban on incinerating recyclable materials.

Express Newspapers group has removed or amended stories relating to a UK recycling 'scandal', which Eunomia says contained 'significant errors'.

Dr Stuart McLanaghan of environmental consultancy Eden 21 argues for a new resource hierarchy, explaining why we need new metrics for resource use.

The next government should introduce new waste and recycling targets if it is to achieve a ‘green Britain’ by 2030, says renewable electricity firm Ecotricity.

The European Commission’s ‘indicative roadmap’ to its revised Circular Economy Package promises an ‘ambitious’ and ‘effective’ framework that will ‘drive real change’.

England and Wales now have the same legal requirement for local authorities to separately collect certain dry recyclables – but uptake of separate collections in the two countries has been vastly different. Annie Kane finds out why

After reviewing the separate sort vs. co-mingled debate [http://resource.co/article/going-separate-ways-10089], Annie Kane takes a look at a local authority that has chosen to undertake co-mingled collections, and the reasons for doing so