Waste management firm Urbaser is to be sold to a Chinese-controlled investment firm, its owners have confirmed.

Three men have been arrested on suspicion of slavery offences after raids on two recycling facilities in Sandwell, near Birmingham.

Philip Morton is to retire as CEO of compliance scheme REPIC at the end of the year, with former Viridor COO Mark Burrows-Smith taking his place.

The Chief Executive of the Environment Agency has likened waste crime to the drugs trade in the 1980s, as the environmental regulator reports that nearly 1,000 illegal waste sites were closed down last year.

Two more councils, Powys and Slough, are to turn to in-house waste services after reviews found that council-run operations offer significant savings.

ISWA has published a roadmap for closing the world’s biggest dumpsites, a ‘global health emergency’ accounting for around 40 per cent of the world’s waste and presenting severe health risks to the four billion people that use them.

Scotland has edged closer to overtaking England’s recycling performance, after official statistics recorded a recycling rate of 44.3 per cent for 2015.

Scotland's circular economy ambitions and future relationship with the European Union are among the topics that will be covered at next month’s Scottish Resources Conference 2016.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a new head of the Wood Recyclers Association, plastic recycling at Fusion Festival and recycling rewards for a children's heart charity.

The British public are frustrated at the lack of consistency and transparency surrounding recycling in the UK, and almost a quarter don’t trust councils to recycle their collections properly, a new national survey has found.