New WRAP report finds local authorities paid a median fee of £6 for every tonne of waste sent to material recovery facilities in 2014/15, but that some councils pay MRFs to take material, while others are paid for it.

A new report by the Green Alliance identifies the advantages of switching to circular business models to deliver risk-adjusted returns.

Porthmadog Skip Hire has been ordered to stop accepting waste at its site in north Wales until it can comply with the conditions of its environmental permit.

As Recycle Week begins, WRAP is urging consumers to check whether items are recyclable before throwing them away, after finding that nearly a third of people are confused about recycling.

The European Parliament Environment Committee has voted through a draft report on the circular economy, which calls on the European Commission to increase recycling targets to ‘at least’ 70 per cent.

Plans by Peel Environmental to develop a £65-million Timber Resource Recovery Centre in Barnsley have been given the green light by Barnsley Council.

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the measures it should implement in its revised Circular Economy Package to bring about sustainability.

Forty people were evacuated from buildings near a biomass company in North Wales yesterday, after a fire broke out at the site.

Dr Stuart McLanaghan of environmental consultancy Eden 21 argues for a new resource hierarchy, explaining why we need new metrics for resource use.

The next government should introduce new waste and recycling targets if it is to achieve a ‘green Britain’ by 2030, says renewable electricity firm Ecotricity.