The manager of a waste transfer station has been given a 12-month suspended sentence for running an illegal waste site in Torpoint, Cornwall.

In a bid to drive up recycling rates, Swansea Council's ‘Keep it Out’ campaign bans recyclables in black bin bags. Tansy Dando reports.

Local authorities have dealt with more than one million fly-tipping incidents in 2018/19, according to new figures from Defra.

Are you disposing of your business’ waste compliantly? Andy Garside, Group Technical Waste Manager at environmental risk reduction company Adler and Allan, discusses the impact that non-compliant waste management can have on businesses.

Natural Resources Wales warns landowners to be wary of requests to store waste on their land.

A trial to test Polytag’s new ‘tag and trace’ recycling technology has been launched today in Wirral.

The Environment Agency (EA) has published its annual Regulating for People, Environment and Growth (RPEG) report.

Anthesis and Topolytics are set to each receive £500,000 of funding as part of the government’s GovTech Catalyst fund, which supports the development of innovative solutions for public sector challenges.

The government has laid out its legislative plans for waste and recycling in the coming Parliament in today’s (14 October) Queen’s Speech, including extended producer responsibility (EPR) and a deposit return scheme (DRS).

Waste management company Biffa has been ordered to pay £599,812 for sending contaminated household waste to China, breaching waste export regulations.