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.

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

GMB members employed by Kier May Gurney on a North Somerset Council contract have voted to strike over an unresolved dispute on pay.

The Department for Communities and Local Government has released draft legislation that bans local authorities from charging residents for using household waste recycling centres.

The City of Edinburgh Council will roll out two new recycling trials for those living in tenements next month, in a bid to boost recycling rates.

Aluminium reprocessing company Novelis completes its $48m upgrade of its scrap aluminum recycling facility in New York.

A new power plant that recovers used cooking oil to produce electricity has been officially opened in North Yorkshire.