The Environment Agency should be given the power to impose new fines on waste operators that deliberately mislabel their waste to avoid tax rules, according to an independent review ordered by Environment Secretary Michael Gove.

Waste management charity WasteAid UK will run a two-year plastic recycling project in The Gambia with government funding from UK Aid Direct.

Sitebuddy, an app from Reconomy that lets you hire a skip quickly and easily, has processed over 1,000 waste movements since July 2018.

An inquest is underway into the deaths of five men at a metal recycling plant back in 2016.

The UK Plastics Pact has published its Roadmap to 2025, a document setting out how Pact members can achieve its ambitious targets to reduce plastic packaging waste.

At the inauguration of CIWM’s new President, Enda Kiernan, he launched the institution’s annual report, which this year examines the future of RDF exports from the UK and Ireland.

Ocean plastics initiative Waste Free Oceans has unveiled the first emergency shelter made from recycled plastic retrieved from the river Po in Italy.

Clarity Environmental has committed to donating £20,000 over the next four years to sponsor an assistance dog at Canine Partners, helping to transform the life of someone living with a physical disability.

Newport’s Tip Shop recorded the most items saved from landfill ever for the month of October, all while improving the wellbeing of its volunteers, according to social enterprise Wastesavers.

A new Quality Control scheme has been jointly developed by the Recycling Association and CCIC London in order to ensure UK shipments of waste paper meet Chinese export requirements.