The Environment Agency’s data on WEEE collection in the UK show that collection rates of household WEEE lag well behind the targets for 2017.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has committed the Scottish Government to a deposit-return scheme in her Government's Programme for 2017/18.

Groups from across the waste industry have warned that proposed Environment Agency changes to waste wood classification could reduce the UK’s recycling rate by two to six per cent a year.

Resource talks to Zero Waste Week founder Rachelle Strauss about the origins of the annual waste reduction awareness campaign and the importance of perseverance in everyone’s zero waste story.

Friends of Glass has released a new online campaign video featuring comedian rapper Doc Brown in an attempt to inform ‘millenials’ about the benefits of glass recycling.

Dolav will be presenting its new stackable recycling box, the Dolav DFLC, at this year’s RWM show.

The Prospecting Secondary Materials in the Urban Mine and Mining Wastes (ProSUM) project is set to launch the first Urban Mine Knowledge Data Platform to increase the recovery of WEEE, end-of-life vehicles, batteries and mining wastes.

Wales’ recycling rate for the 12 months leading up to March 2017 has reached 64 per cent, up four per cent on the figure reported in March 2016 and achieving its target for 2020 three years early.

Bolton Council has reportedly saved £3.4 million in waste disposal costs since the introduction of its ‘slim bins’, while also increasing the authority’s recycling rate to over 50 per cent.

China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection has released a list of materials that will be banned from import from the start of 2018. Steel, copper, nickel, aluminium, zinc and tin were notable absences, according to Reuters.