New ‘Recycle First’ service in Cheshire sees amount of waste sent for disposal drop by 40 per cent since June.

The Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) has called for greater clarity on how Welsh recycling services should be run.

N.Ireland has released figures showing a six per cent drop in household waste and 5.2 per cent increase in household recycling.

Tandridge District Council will introduce weekly food waste collection to residents from 1 October 2012.

Catherine Bearder, Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament for the South East of England, has announced that she has become a signatory of the Resource Association’s ‘End Destinations of Recycling’ Charter.

Burdens has launched the UK’s first small-scale commercial anaerobic digestion (AD) system for food waste.

When weight-based recycling targets were first introduced, Defra money made free green waste collection services look like an easy win. But can local authorities continue to justify the expense (and the added waste generation) in these straightened times?

Defra has published conclusions to its Green Food Project, amidst mixed reactions from the industry.

Local authorities are either paying reduced MRF gate fees, or are receiving payment for recovered materials, according to WRAP’s Gate Fees Report 2012, released today (9 July).

Recycling and waste management firm Biffa have been granted planning permission to build an energy recovery facility at Newhurst Quarry in Shepshed, Leicestershire, after the firm successfully appealed the council’s previous decision to block it.