M&S has announced that in the first six weeks of their ‘Shwopping’ campaign, over 500,000 items of clothing were brought into stores for donation to Oxfam.

Recycle Week 2012 starts today and will run until Sunday 24 June in a week-long push to get more people recycling.

Four Scottish councils are set to trial a disposable nappy recycling scheme that will see used nappies recycled into new products such as garden furniture and roof tiles.

Better food packaging is helping consumers waste less food, says a new WRAP survey

HMRC has announced that it has set up a temporary landfill tax hotline

Scottish people will receive money or vouchers for returning empty bottles and cans to shops as part of a new fund set up by Zero Waste Scotland.

WRAP has announced that food waste collection services for businesses will increase after seven waste collection contractors are awarded funding.

Marks & Spencer has announced that they have become the UK’s first major carbon neutral retailer.

HMRC has published further clarification on the changes to the landfill tax after ‘misunderstanding’ of the original brief.

Gardeners in Bedford Borough Council can receive free compost produced from local food and waste collections until October 2012