Veolia has sold off the last of its stakes in the Israeli market after a seven-year pro-Palestinian campaign that saw it lose an estimated £13 billion in tenders.

The Environment Agency has received funding worth around £470,000 from the European Union to go towards tackling environmental crime.

Businesses and national litter groups have called for an advisory committee on litter to enable a coordinated, long-term plan in the fight against litter.

Rochdale Borough Council has finalised plans to change to three-weekly collections of recycling and residual waste after only 295 residents responded to a consultation.

Just 35 per cent of WEEE disposed of in Europe in 2012 was collected and recycled by regulated processors, a two-year study funded by the European Union has found.

Natural Resources Wales is closely monitoring a fire at a recycling plant in the Vale of Glamorgan, which is still burning after starting on Sunday.

Alupro has announced revisions to the protocol applied to aluminium packaging recovered from incinerator bottom ash, following approval from Defra and the Environment Agencies.

In the 11 months since Cornwall Council introduced charges for certain items at household waste recycling facilities, fly-tipping of those items has more than doubled, council figures show.

Trade unions are calling on SITA Sembcorp UK to put a stop to ‘exploitative employment practices’ they claim to have witnessed at the Wilton 11 energy-from-waste development site in Teesside.

Shanks’ Mechanical Biological Treatment facility on Frog Island, East London, is now fully operational after a partial reconstruction following a fire in August 2014.