Discarded tents and camping gear from this year’s Glastonbury are being collected and donated to refugees in Northern France as part of a scheme run by a Bristol-based charity.

Viridor is set to continue collecting dry kerbside recycling from Kent for another two years after the Kent Resource Partnership revealed that it had passed recycling targets a year early.

Over 30 businesses, retailers and suppliers including Starbucks, Greggs and McDonald’s have pledged to take action to address the waste caused by disposable paper cups.

An English Waste Strategy has been suggested ahead of MPs meeting today to grill stakeholders on the Treasury’s impact on sustainability, and waste targets in particular.

The Wood Recyclers Association is urging the Environment Agency to reconsider elements of its revised fire protection plan guidance, which it says does not put enough emphasis on preventative measures.

New appointments have been made at WRAP, S Norton & Co and the Confederation of European Paper Industries.

A prototype barrier designed by The Ocean Cleanup to catch marine litter in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is to be deployed in the North Sea this week.

Oldham Council is likely to follow several of its neighbouring authorities in implementing three-weekly residual waste collections to reduce the impacts of rapidly rising waste disposal costs in Greater Manchester.

Two Northern Irish AD plants have received government-backed funds for pioneering work using poultry litter.

A new recycling process could see half of the annual volume of UK coffee cups recycled to form a mouldable resin, thereby reducing unsustainable takeaway cup waste