Waste picking in the shadow of the Taj Mahal and discarded life jackets from refugees are among the winning photos of this year’s Environmental Photographer of the Year competition.

Angus Evers, expert in waste law, reflects on the potential legal consequences for the waste and resource industry of the UK’s decision to leave the EU.

Viridor is set to continue collecting dry kerbside recycling from Kent for another two years after the Kent Resource Partnership revealed that it had passed recycling targets a year early.

An English Waste Strategy has been suggested ahead of MPs meeting today to grill stakeholders on the Treasury’s impact on sustainability, and waste targets in particular.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Mick George’s contract with Cambridge University and WRL Glass Media’s increasing exports.

Oldham Council is likely to follow several of its neighbouring authorities in implementing three-weekly residual waste collections to reduce the impacts of rapidly rising waste disposal costs in Greater Manchester.

Two Northern Irish AD plants have received government-backed funds for pioneering work using poultry litter.

The European Commission is to take Slovakia to the EU Court of Justice over failures to act over an illegal landfill.

Parma has reached 72 per cent recycling and 117kg waste per person since a citizens-led initiative to move away from waste disposal and increase recycling was launched in 2012

New research reveals that annual greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced by six per cent globally and by four per cent in the EU