The director of a Leeds-based recycling company has received a record jail sentence and faces the seizure of £2.2 million after fraudulently claiming recycling fees from government-backed schemes.

Ten Welsh councils are to receive a total of £5.75 million from the Welsh Government to help implement improvements in recycling services.

Nappy and absorbent hygiene product recycling company Knowaste is to appeal after Hillingdon Council refused planning permission for a new facility over potential odour emissions.

The waste and resources industry must find new ways to collaborate to ensure it is well-represented in a new political landscape, according to the Resource Association.

Statistics published today reveal that the waste and recycling sector has one of the highest rates of worker fatalities, despite Britain being one of the safest places to work overall.

Hadfield Wood Recyclers has been awarded a contract to supply biomass fuel to a new Green Investment Bank-backed £25-million plant in North Wales that could generate enough energy to power 2,400 homes.

A new food waste campaign has been launched to ‘put pressure’ on London councils to reduce the amount of waste sent for landfill disposal by increasing and improving food waste recycling services across the city..

An operation has begun to determine why a concrete partition wall holding back tonnes of scrap metal collapsed at a recycling facility in Birmingham yesterday, killing five workers.

Five men have died after an industrial accident at a recycling site in Birmingham.

A new food waste action plan aims to smash through the barriers holding back food waste recycling and help the UK meet its targets.