Conwy County Borough Council has revealed that recycling has increased by 17 per cent since trial four-weekly refuse collections began in September 2016.

Waste services firm Veolia has launched a national coffee cup recycling service for offices after research found that over half of regular takeaway hot drink consumers dispose of their cup at work.

The Trade Association Group, the umbrella group comprising the UK’s top waste and resource management organisations, has restated its priorities for the sector in a letter to newly appointed Environment Secretary Michael Gove.

A route map to turn London into one of the world’s most resource efficient cities has been launched by LWARB, calling on stakeholders from local government to community groups to carry out a range of actions targeting five key areas including food waste and plastics.

A new packaging law has been approved by the German parliament, stipulating raised recycling targets for plastic packaging waste and recognising bioplastics as a renewable alternative for packaging.

More than 100 firefighters were called to a SUEZ waste transfer station in the town of Pool, Cornwall, after a store of plastic for recycling caught fire on Saturday evening.

Greater cross-sector collaboration is needed to tackle some of the major questions affecting the future of plastics recycling, according to RECOUP.

Stella McCartney has entered a long-term partnership with marine protection network Parley for the Oceans to use material made from recovered ocean plastic in her fashion lines.

Investigators are looking into the cause of a fire that took hold of a warehouse of over 500 tonnes of wood chips in West Sussex over the weekend.

Axion Consulting has announced that it is moving forward with the next phase of the WRAP-led Critical Raw Materials Recovery project aiming to increase the recovery of critical raw materials used in electronic devices.