With awards and acclaim arriving left and centre, what is it that South Ayrshire Council's Beach Restoration Project is getting so right?

What is behind the decline in fluorescent lamp waste and what consequences could it have?

The Environmental Industries Commission has officially launched a new smart cities platform to facilitate collaboration on using smart technologies to increase drives towards sustainability.

Refuse collection workers in Birmingham have gone to vote over strike action over proposed job cuts amid accusations of council financial mismanagement.

Zero Waste Scotland has launched a Litter Knowledge Network to spread advice, expertise and support on litter prevention.

Former European Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik and Liberal Democrat environment spokesperson Baroness Parminter have been confirmed as the keynote speakers at June’s Resourcing the Future conference.

Wales has registered yet another increase in its recycling rate to 63 per cent as its march towards achieving its statutory 70 per cent recycling rate target before 2025.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector including a new reprocessing contract for Casepak, new packaging made from eggshells, RCVs for students and HSBC funding for a waste start-up.

A young boy has been hospitalised and remains in a critical condition in Belfast after coming into contact with hazardous waste that had been dumped on a bonfire.

A 26-year-old man has been taken to hospital following an explosion at a battery recycling plant near Walsall.