The island of Guernsey has recycled more than half of its household waste for the first time, after a kerbside recycling collection service was introduced last year.

The former Director of tyre recycling business Cartwright Projects Ltd has been given a four-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, for safety failings that led to an employee losing his forearm.

A waste officer from the Environment Agency outlines why the UK needs more enforcement to target waste crime.

The UK Green Investment Bank and investment company Equitix have announced a £14.6 million investment in a new Sheffield-based biomass plant.

Up to 80 firefighters were sent to Recycle Force’s waste facility in Corby over the weekend to stem a large blaze at its recycling storage warehouse.

The Department for Communities and Local Government has upheld its rejection of Veolia’s New Barnfield incinerator following High Courts’ reassessment ruling.

Business Secretary Sajid Javid has announced plans to cut £10 billion of ‘unnecessary’ regulation, including that for the waste sector, over the next five years.

A round-up of waste and resources news, including a food waste Visionary, litter action, and whales swimming in plastic bottles.

Resource and waste management company FCC Environment has become a member of the Resource Association, a trade association for the reprocessing and recycling industries and their supply chain.

Data measuring the input and output of material recovery facilities across England and Wales has been published for the first time today by WRAP.