The owner of a waste tyre business has been handed a suspended prison sentence after illegally disposing of almost 85,000 tyres in Devon.

The director of electrical goods shipping firm Bakour Limited has been given a suspended prison sentence for attempting to illegal export WEEE.

Waste operators will need to pay £84.40 for every tonne of waste disposed of at landfill from 1 April 2016, the Finance (No.2) Bill has revealed.

The EC must make better use of its Ecodesign Directive if it is to address unsustainable resource consumption and bring about a circular economy, says the European Environmental Bureau.

New laws enhancing enforcement authorities’ powers to seize vehicles suspected of involvement in fly-tipping and waste crime have been in laid in England and Wales.

The Budget 2015 reveals that government will provide an extra £4.2 million to tackle waste crime, reform the Landfill Communities Fund, and introduce a raft of initiatives to “put Britain at the forefront of the online sharing economy”.

Bedfordshire waste management firm Monoworld Limited has been ordered to pay more than £23,000 for the illegal shipment of waste.

David Squelch, the man suspected of murdering a colleague at Cory Environmental’s waste depot in Tunbridge Wells, has had his first court appearance.

The CLG Committee is calling on government to assign a portion of any increase in tobacco levies to local councils to help cover the cost street cleaning.

Perpetrators of certain waste crimes could face unlimited fines after a new regulation came into force this week lifting the cap on magistrates’ fining powers.