Countrystyle Recycling is considering an appeal after it was fined £300,000 after a worker was injured while repairing a shredder.

The driver of Stirling Council recycling vehicle has been jailed for a year for causing the death of an 80-year-old man during a round in 2014.

Celebrity chef and waste campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has accused brands of ‘greenwashing’ responses to the burning issue of coffee cup waste, criticising in particular a campaign to increase high street recycling of takeaway cups.

Strike action among North Norfolk Council’s refuse and recycling collectors has been called off after last-minute talks between members of the GMB union and Kier Environmental Services.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a new chair for the ESA, a new look for Viridor and a new range of 70 per cent bioplastics for Novamont.

Police in the West Midlands are investigating after a seven-year-old girl was killed by an empty skip lorry on a busy road in Coventry on Tuesday.

A Lancashire-based plastics recycler has been fined after a worker’s arm was crushed by a conveyor belt.

Defra has launched a consultation on which of two proposed WEEE compliance fee mechanisms should be used, if any, for 2016.

Professor Margaret Bates, the new President of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management, has prioritised action on waste prevention and reuse for the coming year, as a report on the state of reuse in the UK is launched at her inauguration.

The potential for a post-Brexit shake-up of the UK’s packaging waste compliance system has been investigated in a report commissioned by the Environmental Services Association.