Recycling initiatives in five Asian countries could reduce global plastic waste leakage by 45 per cent, according to a recent report.

Northern Irish authorities estimate that one million tonnes of waste could have been deposited in an illegal landfill in the town of Mobuoy near Londonderry.

A married couple that run Daniels Recycling has been ordered to pay £130,000 for illegally exporting 187 tonnes of hazardous electronic waste to Africa.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has developed an updated definition for refuse-derived fuel (RDF) that clarifies what is expected of waste described as RDF.

Three men have been ordered to pay more than £262,000 after being found guilty of illegally dumping more than 60,000 tonnes of waste on two farms in Cornwall.

The paint industry is calling on government to boost support for remanufactured paint and for household waste recycling centres to accept leftover household paint as part of a drive to increase its redistribution.

Angus Evers from King & Wood Mallesons explains the EU Commission’s consultation on the functioning of waste markets in the EU and Defra’s proposals for a revised waste duty of care code of practice.

An exercise will be held at a Lincolnshire recycling centre tomorrow (Thursday, 19 November) to test the response from emergency services and public-sector organisations to fires at waste sites.

Environment Agency contractors started work to clear an abandoned village tip in Yorkshire holding 10,000 tonnes of smouldering waste yesterday.

A round-up of some of the more unusual stories coming out of the waste and resources world...