Thurrock Council will remove residents’ recycling bins if they are repeatedly contaminated, as part of a new ‘three strikes and you’re out’ policy.

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.

Residents across Bath and North East Somerset are being warned that they may experience irregular waste collections over the next few days after waste collection vehicles overheat.

Rochdale council agrees to switch from alternate weekly collections of residual waste and recycling to three-weekly collections, in a bid to increase recycling and save money.

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

Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister Mark H Durkan says he is ‘considering’ introducing a money-back system on drinks bottles to improve recycling.

Scotland’s Zero Waste Taskforce will release a household recycling charter in summer to make collections ‘more consistent’.

Flintshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport City and Wrexham councils are to receive £3 million from the Welsh Government to improve recycling infrastructure and increase recycling rates.

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 London Borough of Ealing has agreed to move from weekly kerbside-sort recycling collections to fortnightly co-mingled collections in a bid to increase recycling and save money.