The recycling rate for lamps and luminaires rose in 2016, with the UK’s largest lamp collection service saying that we have now reached ‘peak lamp WEEE’.

Leeds City Council has partnered with retailer Marks & Spencer to deliver a MetalMatters recycling campaign to 350,000 households – the largest single local authority campaign run by the programme.

A behaviour change programme targeting sustainable eating and food waste prevention in London has announced nine boroughs that will be taking part in its initiative over the next two years.

Half of rural businesses are putting themselves at risk of prosecution for waste crimes because of a ‘fundamental lack of understanding of key legislation’, according to new research.

The Welsh Government is to consult on the possibility of setting an 80 per cent recycling target for local authorities, after noting that it is due to hit its 70 per cent goal ahead of schedule.

The European Parliament has voted to take on proposals to raise the European recycling target to 70 per cent by 2030 and to determine a single calculation method for recycling rates ahead of negotiations for the EU’s Circular Economy Package.

The BPF says action on waste imports in China gives the UK an opportunity to drive up quality on recyclable materials, after more details were released about the crackdown of illegal shipments of waste into the country.

EXCLUSIVE: Resource and Eunomia Research & Consulting team up to examine how recycling rates are calculated around the world, and determine who’s actually recycling the most.

Mattress recycling has fallen in the UK since 2014, according to a new report by the National Bed Federation.

A possible extension of the landfill tax to punish illegal disposal and new packaging recycling targets for paper, aluminium, steel and wood were included in today’s Budget, but climate change policies were a notable omission.