Paul Broadbent, Chief Executive of the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, warns that everyone has a responsibility to stamp out modern slavery in the recycling industry.

Leading recycling nations may be overstating their recycling figures, with adjusted figures released by Eunomia revealing that the top countries are recycling over 10 per cent less than reported.

A record 67 anaerobic digestion plant operators are now active participants in the Biofertiliser Certification Scheme, now at the end of its tenth year.

EAC Chair Mary Creagh has written to Education Secretary Justine Greening urging her to include the UN Sustainable Development Goals in the National Curriculum.

With the NHS under strain, could a more effective waste management strategy provide some relief?

Environment Secretary Michael Gove has called for a cross-sector plan to tackle the challenges posed by plastic packaging at a ‘Plastics Roundtable’ with industry leaders last Friday.

England’s ‘waste from households’ recycling rate has increased to 45.1 per cent for the financial year 2016/17, up 0.7 per cent on the rate for 2015/16, according to the latest figures.

The UK could be heading for a future consisting of increased dangerous chemical use, poorly designed products and less ambitious waste reduction targets if the risks thrown up by Brexit are not properly dealt with, according to a new report by think tank Green Alliance.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector including a job-saving takeover of Gelpack, new capacity for Novamont and more community funding from Veolia.

Cutbacks planned by waste firm Viridor could lead to some 100 employees working in mechanical biological treatment facilities across Greater Manchester being served redundancy notices in a bid to cut costs.