Three councils have begun trialling kerbside recycling collections of flexible laminated packaging as part of a new Defra-funded study.

The number of disposable wipes discarded on UK beaches has risen by 50 per cent in one year, the Marine Conservation Society has found.

Bedfordshire waste management firm Monoworld Limited has been ordered to pay more than £23,000 for the illegal shipment of waste.

Eunomia is calling on government to introduce a deposit-refund scheme for drinks packaging and introduce levies on chewing gum and cigarettes to reduce litter.

The CLG Committee is calling on government to assign a portion of any increase in tobacco levies to local councils to help cover the cost street cleaning.

Friends of the Earth Europe has released a new report calling on the European Commission to make resource efficiency central to policymaking decisions.

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

Plastic film reprocessing company PlasRecycle has become a full member of the Resource Association.

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.