Refuse workers employed in King’s Lynn and West Norfolk by Kier are considering strike action over ‘unreasonable and irrelevant demands on the workforce’.

Fixed penalty notices for fly-tippers will be introduced in England ‘at the earliest opportunity’ following a government consultation into waste crime enforcement.

Halton Borough Council has announced that it will end its recycling reward scheme from 1 November.

The European Commission’s Circular Economy Package will be released on 2 December, according to a senior official.

Scotland is to be set a formal food waste reduction target, Scottish Environment Minister Richard Lochhead has said.

Keep Britain Tidy’s Bin it for Good scheme has seen litter in central Birmingham decrease by almost a third.

Police are treating a fire that caused around £100,000-worth of damage to a recycling yard near York as arson.

Plans to introduce a pay-as-you-throw waste collection system in Guernsey by mid-2016 have been delayed until 2017.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including the Environment Agency’s new CEO, Brighton Fashion Week and a new structure for Smurfit Kappa.

Officers from the Environment Agency took part in an operation in Lincolnshire on Wednesday in an attempt to identify illegal waste traders.