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.

Northern Ireland is to allocate approximately £500,000 of funding from carrier bag levy receipts to support conservation work for six listed buildings.

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.

A round-up of waste and resources news, including a food waste Visionary, litter action, and whales swimming in plastic bottles.

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

European investment body AURELIUS Group has followed up its acquisition of plastics company ECO Plastics by purchasing Regain Polymers Holdings from Chamonix Private Equity.

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.