A man has been killed following an incident with a moving vehicle at an EGGER chipboard production and recycling plant in East Ayrshire, Scotland.

Visually impaired sisters Mary and Jane Phillips can now identify their new wheelie bins after being modified by Veolia, with the addition of braille-like holes.

The Welsh Government has set the rates for its new devolved Landfill Disposals Tax, maintaining the UK’s standard rate but adding a new band for unauthorised disposals to provide a deterrent against waste crime.

The director of North-West recycler Fresco Environmental has been given a suspended jail sentence after a worker was crushed to death by a falling bale of carpet last year.

The extent of the incredible change in technology and how it is recycled in the 10 years since UK WEEE regulations were introduced, has been detailed by the European Recycling Platform.

Waste associations have written to Resources Minister Therese Coffey calling on Defra to "take urgent action" to support the recycling industry following China’s ban on the import of all scrap plastics and unsorted waste paper.

An underground bin system in Cambridge’s new district of Eddington has entered operation - the largest of its kind in the UK.

Refuse workers in Doncaster belonging to the union Unite will be balloted for strike action in the coming days in a dispute over job cuts, with strike action slated to take place over the Christmas period.

Prevention and recycling must underpin the EU’s plastics strategy to reduce marine plastics pollution, according to EU Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella.

Increased refurbishment and remanufacture in the European furniture sector could create up to 157,000 jobs and save around six million tonnes of CO2 emissions, according to a study by the European Environmental Bureau.