Around a quarter of UK householders are ‘highly effective’ recyclers but the majority are still confused over what can and cannot be recycled, a new WRAP report has found.

The proportion of UK local authorities offering kerbside carton collection has reached 60 per cent, finds ACE UK.

Keep Scotland Beautiful tells Stop Litter Now! summit that the EU’s litter problem costs member states a total of £10 billion a year.

Veolia has developed a new technology that can process the contaminated paper element of residual waste into pulp material for new products.

Wakefield Council is to move to co-mingled recycling collections in 2015, after internal TEEP test finds separate collections to be neither economically nor environmentally practicable.

The BBC is to run a new, three-part series on waste next year, with campaigner and chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall presenting the programme.

Recycling half of the items littered in England would have an economic value of at least £14.8 million, finds Keep Britain Tidy report.

The Resource Association has released a new video highlighting the challenge of contamination in recycling and what can be done to overcome it.

Paper manufacturer UPM will permanently close paper machines in the UK, France and Finland next year in response to paper ‘overcapacity’.

A new survey from Keep Britain Tidy has found that litter is associated with increases in poverty, crime, and social disorder.