The Welsh Government has published statutory guidance on the separate collection of waste paper, metal, plastic and glass.

Retailers in England will be required to report details of their plastic bag charging schemes to central government, a new letter has revealed.

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.

Investment company AURELIUS has acquired plastics reprocessing company ECO Plastics for an undisclosed sum, it has been announced today (12 December).

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

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.

One fire engine remains at the site of a waste fire that has been burning in Newhaven for four days, despite the Fire Brigades Union going on strike today.

Plastics reprocessing company ECO Plastics announces it is looking for a buyer, following ‘operational challenges and unfavourable market conditions’.

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

Nestlé and Unilever are amongst a number of companies working with the resource industry in a new project to ‘create a circular economy for flexible packaging’.