Gloucestershire County Council will appeal a government ruling that it must disclose all information about its waste contract with Urbaser Balfour Beatty.

Resources Minister Rory Stewart has given his backing to a new action plan for food waste recycling, after a steering group met for the first time last week.

Welsh Resources Minister Carl Sargeant has pledged to introduce Welsh legislation extending the powers of waste crime enforcement.

Viridor has been named as the preferred bidder for a £700-million contract to process residual waste from five West Scotland councils.

Halton Borough Council has announced that it will end its recycling reward scheme from 1 November.

Scotland is to be set a formal food waste reduction target, Scottish Environment Minister Richard Lochhead has said.

Keep Britain Tidy’s Bin it for Good scheme has seen litter in central Birmingham decrease by almost a third.

Environment Secretary Liz Truss vowed to ‘crack down on waste cowboys’, while Resources Minister Rory Stewart has called for more consistency in collections.

Plans to introduce a pay-as-you-throw waste collection system in Guernsey by mid-2016 have been delayed until 2017.

A new anaerobic digestion plant for the Tomorrow’s Valley project local authorities in South Wales was opened by Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant yesterday.