Waste management company AmeyCespa has been awarded a five-year recycling contract from the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Waste Partnership.

Derby City Council, which has recently seen a large drop in recycling rates, is to cease kerbside recycling collections in several wards to ‘tidy’ the streets.

Sheffield councillor Jack Scott resigns from cabinet position following ‘an issue’ relating to recent HWRC strikes.

With separate collections of dry recyclables set to become the norm in 2015, Annie Kane hits the streets to see how one system stacks up to Waste Framework Directive requirements, as well as to householder expectations

New figures show that local authorities in England recycled 40.4 per cent of household waste in the first three months of 2014, and 44.5 per cent in 2013/14.

With mounting calls for the UK to become more resource efficient, Jonny Hazell says we need to change the way we think about resources to fix the structural problems with our collection systems

With most people now recycling paper and packaging, attention is turning to trickier streams. Resource finds out how London is aiming to boost mattress recycling

Metal packaging recycling campaign MetalMatters is being launched in Greater Manchester and Rhondaa Cynon Taf.

Welsh recycling rates rise by two per cent, with the country recycling, reusing, or composting 54.3 per cent in 2013/14.

Natural Resources Wales has opened a consultation on Clean Power (UK) Limited’s application to operate a pyrolysis plant in Carmarthenshire.