As the EU prepares to discuss adopting new regulations on ship recycling, Annie Reece takes a look at the murky laws surrounding the shipbreaking industry.

Government affirms interest in nuclear energy as it signs communiqué and commits £12.5m of funding to research project.

Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods recycles human waste to help stem a cholera epidemic in Haiti.

The UK recycled 27.7 per cent of portable batteries in 2012, surpassing the EU’s Batteries Directive target for 2012.

Rundle’s Scrap Yard ordered to pay £4,494 in fines and costs for illegally burning waste on Bonfire Night in 2011.

A new BBC documentary, Litter Wars, highlights the work done by litter ‘vigilantes’ in their efforts to clean up local streets.

Environmental Scrutiny Panel unanimously upholds Cumbria’s decision to withdraw from nuclear waste repository search.

Clean-up cost of Sellafield nuclear waste site reaches £67.5bn with ‘no indication’ of slowing down, finds PAC report.

Landowner given eight-month suspended jail term and fines totalling £35,000 for operating an illegal waste site in Essex.

Cumbria councillors vote against taking any further steps to host an underground nuclear waste disposal facility in the area.