A new campaign from Recycle for London aims to increase recycling by showing Londoners how to create more bin space inside their homes.

Councillors in Brighton and Hove unanimously passed a motion to ban the use of single-use plastics in all council buildings last week.

The world’s first fully-electric, rear-loading refuse collection vehicle – Geesinknorba’s Li-On Power Pro – is set to be unveiled at London’s Future Fleet Forum in January.

The government’s actions on plastic bottle and coffee cup recycling have been criticised by the Environmental Audit Committee as part of its inquiry into the impact of disposable drinks packaging.

One in five councils in the UK have now run MetalMatters campaigns to boost recycling of metal packaging after seven new campaigns launched over the past two months.

Northern Ireland has seen its recycling rate break the 50 per cent mark for the first time, according to the latest DAERA statistics.

The Environment Minister Therese Coffey has announced plans to almost double the maximum fines for littering to claw back some of the £800 million paid every year by the taxpayer.

Leading figures in local authority recycling have called for producers to contribute more to recycling the products they put onto market at a panel conducted by the Environmental Audit Committee.

The GMWDA has started looking for a new contractor for Greater Manchester, following the breakdown of its landmark PFI contract last month.

The government has responded to EFRA’s ‘Food Waste in England’ report and acknowledges that while more needs to be done to tackle food waste, a mandatory approach is not currently being considered for England.