The European Parliament has voted to take on proposals to raise the European recycling target to 70 per cent by 2030 and to determine a single calculation method for recycling rates ahead of negotiations for the EU’s Circular Economy Package.

A possible extension of the landfill tax to punish illegal disposal and new packaging recycling targets for paper, aluminium, steel and wood were included in today’s Budget, but climate change policies were a notable omission.

The impact of disposable drinks packaging on the environment is to be investigated by MPs after the growth of high profile campaigns against takeaway coffee cups and plastic bottles.

A fire broke out at DS Smith’s Willenhall paper recycling plant on Wednesday morning with 30 firefighters and five fire crews sent in to tackle the blaze.

Packaging firm DS Smith, has announced its intention to invest £4 million in its recycling facilities in the South West of England and East London, a week after it appointed a new Head of Recycling.

China has established a year-long crackdown on the illegal smuggling of foreign waste, as it also continues to reject poorly-sorted legitimate shipments, sending 160 containers of contaminated paper recycling back to Ireland.

The average percentage of target material being received by materials facilities in Wales rose by 1.3 per cent in the third quarter of 2016, the latest data published by WRAP suggests.

A pedestrian has been killed in a collision with a heavy goods vehicle at the paper mill of UPM Shotton in Deeside, North Wales.

Investigators are looking into what caused a fire that broke out at paper recycler UPM Shotton’s North Wales materials recovery facility in Deeside last night.

The UK’s most heavily-concentrated area of offices is to be targeted for Hubbub’s Square Mile Challenge, providing specialist bins to boost the recycling of takeaway coffee cups.