The designer of a mobile recycling facility says that governments and NGOs must seek practical solutions to sanitation in refugee camps, with the number of displaced people around the world at record levels.

Sheffield City Council leaders will vote next week whether to end the authority’s waste contract with Veolia 19 years early.

Two North Sea oil platforms are on their way to Great Yarmouth for recycling after a partnership between Veolia and oil industry logistics firm Peterson was awarded two contracts to recycle rigs at its facility in Norfolk.

WRAP is calling for a united effort after it found that £13 billion of edible food was wasted by UK households in 2015, a situation Friends of the Earth calls ‘the definition of a scandal’.

Businesses from the grocery industry met WRAP goals on manufacturing and retail waste over the course of Courtauld Commitment 3, but failed to make a dent on household food waste, results have shown.

Simply Cups, the UK’s only paper cup recycling scheme, has partnered with a company that claims to have made a takeaway cup that is recyclable at traditional paper mills.

Greater producer responsibility, more consistent recycling systems and the revisitation of pay as you throw should all be considered to make English recycling more efficient, says the Green Alliance.

The Resource Association has called on government to recognise the importance of high-quality recycling collection as it considers new business packaging recycling targets.

Two men died just days before Christmas when a teenager fell into a tanker of slurry and his colleague attempted to save him, police have said.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector including new Leave You Cap On campaigns, an appointment at Amey and an opening for London’s Sustainable Development Commission.