Three companies who colluded to reduce purchase prices of used automotive batteries as part of a cartel operation have been fined a total of €68 million by the European Commission.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including jail for a London fly-tipper, executive movements at WRAP, Recycle Week 2017 and Blue Peter going green.

The Environment Agency and the Health and Safety Executive have joined forces in the North East to check waste sites are operating legally and safely.

Fly-tippers in Wales could be subject to on-the-spot fixed-penalty notices of up to £400, after the government proposed new, quicker punishments to ward off waste criminals.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector including a skip firm’s lost licence, a jail warning for a ‘shameless’ Croydon fly-tipper and the Great British Spring Clean.

Police in the Chinese province of Jiangsu have arrested three men after an illegal operation recycling medical waste into children’s toys and tableware was uncovered.

A former director of a Scottish waste firm that was used as a front for a million-pound heroin smuggling ring has been sentenced.

Two siblings who dumped tonnes of tyres across unlit roads at night have been fined £5,000 each after a council-led investigation.

A man has been fined after he punched an Environment Agency officer checking on the progress of an order to remove illegal waste from his farm.

A Wigan-based skip hire company that has made national news in a video showing the contents of one of its skip being emptied into a front garden has been fined for six unrelated abuses of environmental protection laws.