Waste management company Biffa has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of driving dangerously around collection vehicles.

In setting up the Bristol Waste Company, Bristol City Council is getting its recycling into ship-shape conditions.

A new bill detailing plans to devolve the landfill disposals tax to Wales from April 2018 is due to be laid out before the Welsh National Assembly.

The new Chairman of the Environmental Services Association, a trade association representing the UK’s resource and waste management industry, outlined his priorities for the association at its annual lunch for members and stakeholders.

A round up of news from the waste and resources sector including new bins for Croydon, global growth in the AD industry, investment in the European paper industry and more.

The German city of Freiburg is pioneering the new ‘Freiburg Cup’, a reusable coffee cup, to reduce single-use takeaway waste.

New research by Zero Waste Scotland has revealed that nearly 1.35 million tonnes of food and drink was wasted in Scotland in 2013, a figure that will be used as a baseline for efforts to reduce food waste by a third by 2025.

Fifteen US companies have pledged to reduce their food loss and waste by 50 per cent by 2030.

Bywater’s has begun a five-year contract for the Parliamentary Estate, with the aim of increasing recycling rates and aiding sustainability efforts.

Following several high-profile setbacks for ‘advanced conversion technologies', some are now questioning whether gasification and pyrolysis can ever work at a large scale to treat residual waste.