Ten waste advisors in North Somerset Council have helped to boost the area’s recycling rate to 60 per cent, it has been announced.

The RWM Ambassadors panel has awarded £15,000 of funding to waste management charity Waste Aid.

Keep Britain Tidy’s annual Waste Less, Live More week will begin on Monday, with a focus on being ‘resourceful’.

The UK’s ‘largest resource efficiency and waste management event’, RWM in partnership with CIWM, begins today.

Local authorities are being asked to complete a survey about the impact of budget cuts on waste, recycling and street cleansing services.

Keep Britain Tidy and SITA UK release 10-point plan to increase recycling in urban environments, following public inquiry.

Coca-Cola Enterprises and Tesco launch ‘Pledge, Play and Recycle’ campaign to encourage customers to recycle more.

Coca-Cola Enterprises and Tesco launch ‘Pledge, Play and Recycle’ campaign to encourage customers to recycle more.

Government has backed a new industry partnership campaign, Pledge 4 Plastics, which aims to increase the collection of plastic packaging for recycling.

More than 95 per cent of respondents to a recycling poll said they ‘actively recycle household items’.