Steve Lee, who will step down as Chief Executive at CIWM at the end of October, will continue to head Resources & Waste UK R&WUK, the joint policy and influencing body created in 2014.

This weekend’s Bristol International Balloon Fiesta is being used to show the city’s residents how much waste is being created and how much recycling potential is lying in their bins.

Councillors in Westminster have said that a £160k fine for two Starbucks stores who left bin bags on the street in Central London proves that every business has a responsibility to keep streets clean.

The number of materials facilities reporting input and output sampling figures has again dropped according to data published by the Waste & Resources Action Programme.

A guide designed to help local authorities, waste management companies and charities understand the opportunities presented by reuse services at household waste recycling centres has been published by WRAP.

Construction firm Interserve has announced that it is leaving the energy-from-waste industry months after revealing complications with on-going projects had cost the company £70 million.

Investigations are under way after a worker was found dead at a Milton Keynes recycling facility on Monday afternoon.

Two Hertfordshire councils are to go ahead with plans to create a joint waste collection and street cleansing service in an attempt to save over £700,000.

A fire that broke out at a West Midlands recycling plant after recycled foam insulation overheated after processing is one of four to have taken place at waste sites in the past two days.

Lamp recycling has almost doubled in the last five years, according to figures released this summer, with Recolight, the UK’s largest lamp recycling scheme, recycling almost one lamp every second.