The European Environmental Bureau has launched a new campaign promoting better product design, reuse, and recycling, in a bid to reduce waste and boost resource security.

Plastics Recyclers Europe is warning that increasing use of coloured PET packaging could lead to ‘a collapse in the PET & HDPE recycling industry’.

David and Lee Averies of fire-hit waste management company Averies Recycling are to appear in court next month on charges relating to environmental offences.

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

The European Commission will launch a public consultation on its revised circular economy package tomorrow, according to Defra’s Colin Church.

A man has been handed a seven-month prison sentence for illegally operating a waste facility near Burton-upon-Trent.

Cambridge City Council and Cambridge Sustainable Food launch new food waste campaign by sailing a punt full of food down the River Cam.

Nearly 80 per cent of the Scottish public support the introduction of a deposit return scheme, the Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland (APRS) has revealed.

A round-up of business news from the waste and resources sector, including PHS Wastemangement, PAWRS, MGB Plastics, and Cromwell Polythene.

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