The waste and resources sector, including repair, reuse and leasing activities, contributes £41 billion to the UK economy, Defra has found.

WRAP has launched a new online ‘Recycling Locator’ that enables householders to find out what materials they can recycle and where they can recycle them.

EXCLUSIVE: Members of the biochemical sector are being asked to attend an event next week to help develop a new trade association for the industry.

The UK Green Investment Bank is launching a £50-million investment fund to support biomass projects.

Walsall Council has withdrawn plans to charge for green waste collections from 2016, after 70 per cent of residents said they would not pay for the service.

A new British Retail Consortium progress report reveals that retailers are ‘on track’ to meet their voluntary environmental targets by 2020.

Reading Borough Council is considering introducing food waste collections to resdients as part of a five-year plan to drive up recycling rates.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has released its first ‘Digest of Waste and Resource Statistics’ collating official UK waste statistics for ‘ease of use’.

Haulage and plant hire company Rory J Holbrook Limited has been ordered to pay £247,278 for illegally handling waste on land in Blofield, Norfolk.

A new power plant that recovers used cooking oil to produce electricity has been officially opened in North Yorkshire.