The directors of waste company Doonin Plant Ltd have been disqualified for life for their part in criminal activity.

Stafford Borough Council is to offer residents the chance to win £60 cash if they can prove that they have no recycling in their waste bin.

The British Plastics Federation Recycling Group calls for packaging recovery note targets to favour domestic recycling.

Oran Environmental Solutions has been found guilty of breaching its waste permit at its waste transfer station in Falkirk.

Veolia is challenging Eric Pickles on his decision to refuse planning permission to a new incinerator in Hertfordshire.

Aberdeen City Council begins trialling co-mingled collections ahead of its plans to move from kerbside sort to co-mingled collections in 2015.

Derby City Council, the Derby Telegraph and NET petition to make it easier to prosecute people for flytipping.

The Environment Agency inspected more than 800 shipping containers in 2013/14, an increase of more than 400 per cent on 2012/13.

Metal recycling business Baxketh Ltd has been fined £12,000 for failing to protect workers from asbestos exposure.

Government asks stakeholders to submit views on whether its transposition of the EU Amended Batteries Directive is ‘accurate’.