Wales’s Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant backs kerbside sort collections and warns that the 70 per cent recycling target is ‘not optional’

The first reporting period of the Materials Facility Regulations, which requires operators to sample incoming and outgoing streams, has begun today.

The Welsh Government summarises what actions are being taken to reduce food and packaging waste and boost supply chain efficiencies.

Dr Helmut Maurer from the EC Directorate General for Environment has suggested that resource policy should be kept separate from waste.

Scotland’s Environment Secretary says he is ‘not ruling out’ statutory recycling targets, after most councils miss 2013 recycling target.

A campaign to increase carton recycling has been launched by the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and Environment UK.

The UK recycled 43.9 per cent of waste from households in 2012, according to new statistics released by Defra today.

Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council’s executive approves proposals to switch to kerbside-sort recycling with three-weekly residual collection.

Kerbside recycling collections in Mendip could be delayed for a further six weeks due to driver shortages, warns Somerset Waste Partnership.

Love Food Hate Waste is to deliver its first international food waste minimisation programme in Vancouver, Canada.