Waste associations have written to Resources Minister Therese Coffey calling on Defra to "take urgent action" to support the recycling industry following China’s ban on the import of all scrap plastics and unsorted waste paper.

Over half of the UK’s population wants to know more about what their recycling gets turned into, leading WRAP to using Recycle Week to highlight the transformation of household products.

Selfridges has announced that it will be upcycling used coffee cups from its food hall and headquarters into its iconic yellow shopping bags.

Cardiff faces fines of up to £21 million unless it takes action to recycle an additional 32,000 tonnes of waste a year in order to meet its 2020 recycling target of 64 per cent.

Three days of expert discussion and presentations covered a lot of waste and resources ground at the RWM Conference in Birmingham this week. Here’s a snapshot of some of the things that we picked up wandering the show floor.

Ecosurety and Hubbub have teamed up to produce a regular series of consumer awareness campaigns in order to boost recycling.

Recycling Association calls for whole supply chain responsibility and to boost recyclate quality in its new Quality First report.

A round-up of the more quirky stories from the world of waste and resources.

As China cracks down on imports of foreign waste, what impact could this policy shift have on the UK recycling sector?

Industry members give their thoughts on whether the existing PRN system needs reform following Brexit.