Walsall Council has withdrawn plans to charge for green waste collections from 2016, after 70 per cent of residents said they would not pay for the service.

East Dorset District Council opposes Dorset Waste Partnership's proposals to charge residents for using household waste recycling centres, following government intervention.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Viridor, ACE UK, and a search for Croydon fly-tippers.

A new British Retail Consortium progress report reveals that retailers are ‘on track’ to meet their voluntary environmental targets by 2020.

Reading Borough Council is considering introducing food waste collections to resdients as part of a five-year plan to drive up recycling rates.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has released its first ‘Digest of Waste and Resource Statistics’ collating official UK waste statistics for ‘ease of use’.

Thirteen teams of 16 to 24-year-olds across the UK have been awarded £500 to develop local sustainability campaigns in Lloyds Banking Group’s ‘Money for Life’ challenge.

Resource's annual local authority league tables based on waste arisings per capita.

After decades of relentlessly rising recycling rates, in which the answer to our titular question would have been a resounding ‘yes’, the figures for the 2013/14 residual waste league table provide a different response altogether (in England, at least). Charles Newman has more

New research published by FCC suggests that citizens in urban areas do not value waste services as highly as other forms of infrastructure.