Leading recycling nations may be overstating their recycling figures, with adjusted figures released by Eunomia revealing that the top countries are recycling over 10 per cent less than reported.

A record 67 anaerobic digestion plant operators are now active participants in the Biofertiliser Certification Scheme, now at the end of its tenth year.

EAC Chair Mary Creagh has written to Education Secretary Justine Greening urging her to include the UN Sustainable Development Goals in the National Curriculum.

The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association is to launch a new AD Certification Scheme following a successful trial carried out in September.

UK waste management companies SWR and Newstar have announced their merger with a view to capitalise on businesses desire to extract more value from their waste.

With the NHS under strain, could a more effective waste management strategy provide some relief?

England’s ‘waste from households’ recycling rate has increased to 45.1 per cent for the financial year 2016/17, up 0.7 per cent on the rate for 2015/16, according to the latest figures.

The UK could be heading for a future consisting of increased dangerous chemical use, poorly designed products and less ambitious waste reduction targets if the risks thrown up by Brexit are not properly dealt with, according to a new report by think tank Green Alliance.

A man has died at a recycling plant in Conwy, North Wales, after getting trapped in machinery, police have said.

A ‘pop-up’ fly-tipping business that appeared on a former factory site in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, charged customers to illegally dump truck loads of waste.