New research reveals that 144 incidents of fly-tipping occur every day across the Greater Manchester areas, costing councils nearly £4.9 million in clearance and enforcement, according to a new report.

UK water utility organisation Severn Trent is acquiring Agrivert Holdings Ltd., adding to the organisation’s anaerobic digestion operations.

Charges have been brought against two men in Swansea for ‘several years’ worth of illegal activities likely to cause harm to the environment and human health.

The Furniture Recycling Group has announced an increase in revenue following new deals with retailers as it tackles the issue of difficult to recycle materials and rising landfills.

Environmental charity Hubbub launched a boat made from 99 per cent plastic waste last week to collect debris in the Thames.

Environmental consultancy Eunomia Research and Consulting will be running the first ever conference deposit return scheme for coffee cups at this year’s RWM show in Birmingham, in partnership with NEC catering arm Amadeus.

Burning farm plastics will be illegal in Scotland from 2019 after the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) vowed to end exemptions enabling the practice.

Free skips in every ward and free bulky waste collections are one of a number of options being considered by Walsall Council as incidents of fly-tipping in the local authority continue to rise.

More than 66,000 tonnes tonnes of illegally dumped waste posing a fire hazard have been cleared from a storage site in Warrington.

Several thousand residents have signed a petition against a plan from St Helens Council to reduce the frequency of residual waste collections.