The Dorset Waste Partnership is to continue collecting recycling via a two-stream collection system after finding separate collections are not ‘economically practicable’.

The Material Security Working Group has introduced a parliamentary paper reiterating calls for the establishment of a central Office for Resource Management.

Wales’s Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant has confirmed the evidence base of Wales’s Collection Blueprint is currently being independently reviewed, but defends the approach as ‘the most sustainable option’.

Materials recovery facility operators in Scotland will need to begin sampling incoming and outgoing material from 1 October 2015, it has been revealed.

The Liberal Democrats would introduce charges for all single-use bags, including biodegradable and paper ones, if they were to gain power in May.

The Welsh Government and Defra have launched a consultation on proposals to ‘enhance’ waste crime enforcement powers in England and Wales.

Corrugated packaging recycler DS Smith has announced its intentions to acquire rival Duropack.

The majority of the 300-strong workforce at newsprint manufacturer Aylesford Newsprint Limited has been made redundant, following news that the company has entered administration.

Recycled newsprint manufacturer Aylesford Newsprint has announced that it is applying to enter administration.

Summer recycling rates in Wales hit record highs of 58 per cent in 2014, according to figures released by the Welsh Government today (19 February).