The introduction of a three-weekly residual waste kerbside collection system in Bury has seen the recycling rate jump by eight per cent in just two months, the council says.

WRAP's annual report warns that the fall in price of oil ‘threatens to undermine the viability’ of markets for recycled plastics.

Britain could hit its 50 per cent recycling target with stricter waste laws for companies, organisations and schools in England, according to BusinessWaste.co.uk.

The United Nations has agreed a draft for its 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, which seeks to halve global food waste, ‘substantially reduce waste generation’ and curb climate change.

The London Waste and Recycling Board has announced that it is to invest up to £3 million into a private equity fund to help ‘accelerate the move to a circular economy in London’.

Households in East Devon will receive residual waste collections every three weeks next month, as part of a new trial collection service.

Powys and Surrey county councils have both announced public consultations on changes to waste management services that aim to reduce costs.

Hadfield Wood Recyclers has temporarily stopped accepting waste wood at two of its sites to avoid enforcement action from the Environment Agency.

Boomeco Ltd, a wood recycling and waste handling company in Avonmouth, has been fined £14,000 for its role in a fly infestation that affected homes in Bristol last year.

National environmental charities have written to David Cameron expressing concern that 10 environmental policies have been ‘cancelled or weakened’ in the first months of his new government.