Element Green Recycling has produced a new web application to help businesses recycle more and earn more from their waste materials.

The Merseyside Waste & Recycling Authority is offering voluntary groups and social enterprises a share of a £110,000 Community Fund pot to deliver green projects

New figures from Defra show that, between April and June 2014, local authorities in England recycled more organic waste than dry recyclables for the first time.

A new draft law could allow businesses that breach their environmental permits to volunteer enforcement undertakings in place of receiving criminal sanctions.

Leicestershire County Council has become the latest local authority to consider reducing some of its waste offerings to save money.

The Court of Milan has banned Italian company KromaBatch from claiming that the plastic additive ‘d2w’ can ‘give biodegradability’ to traditional plastics.

The European Commission should do more to promote the bioeconomy, the European Bioeconomy Alliance has announced at its official launch.

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.

The former Managing Director of Smurfit Kappa, Simon Weston, has been appointed as Director of Raw Materials at the Confederation of Paper Industries.