Work begins this week to remove 21,000 tonnes of illegally dumped waste from a site near the A34 in Oxfordshire, in an operation the Environment Agency expects to take six months and between 15 and 30 lorry loads a day.

Annual report from waste operator examines how Simpler Recycling, local government reorganisation and a shifting party political picture will shape services in the year ahead.

Monthly Annex VII submissions, GPS data and geotagged facility photographs among requirements as regulator extends tyre export controls to all Article 18 waste streams.

Middlesbrough facility completes first melt on upgraded electric arc furnace, with metal recycler and steelmaker projects already in the pipeline.

University of Manchester engineers deploy fleet of AI-powered litter collection robots in Cheshire town, with council leaders already eyeing enforcement capabilities.

A Resource Media review of 294 English councils finds only 36 per cent are separating paper and card, with nearly half placing all dry recyclables in a single bin.

Cross-party coalition in Havering writes to Prime Minister calling for legislation to give councils stronger powers over contaminated land and historic landfill sites.

The four UK governments have opened a six-week consultation on reforms to the packaging recycling note system, proposing new powers to cancel fraudulent PRNs and mandatory registration for brokers.

A not-for-profit consortium backed by more than 100 organisations representing nearly half of UK EPR fees will take on operational management of the packaging extended producer responsibility scheme from April.

A free toolkit maps the fashion industry as interconnected islands rather than a linear chain, allocating carbon emissions by stage and identifying the systemic forces that lock high-carbon models in place.