More than 95 per cent of respondents to a recycling poll said they ‘actively recycle household items’.

Stafford Borough Council is to offer residents the chance to win £60 cash if they can prove that they have no recycling in their waste bin.

All eight councils of the Norfolk Waste Partnership are to begin co-mingling glass in October, following a new waste contract agreement.

Sixty-five billion PET plastic bottles were recycled in Europe in 2013, according to Petcore Europe.

The City of Cardiff Council has extended its waste processing contract with Casepak by a further year.

Residents in North Lincolnshire will be able to recycle plastic food containers and bottle tops once more following MRF operator changes.

The City of Edinburgh Council has begun rolling out its new, twin-stream dry recycling system.

The Liberal Democrat manifesto for 2015 will include new environmental laws, such as landfill bans for biodegradable waste.

Novelis partners with European Metal Recycling to allow suppliers to drop off used beverage cans more locally.

With so much effort going into increasing recycling, remanufacturing doesn’t always get the attention it deserves. But are businesses finally ready to pick up the effort and create as-new products from used pieces? Annie Reece finds out