New figures show that in 2012, Ireland recovered more municipal waste than it disposed of for the first time.

Age UK has launched a new online computer recycling scheme to help raise funds to support older people.

Stadler has announced that it has created a fully-automated waste sorting plant, the ‘first of its kind in the world’.

Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council is set to introduce three-weekly residual waste collections and move to a kerbside-sort recycling service.

England’s recycling rate has almost completely stalled, rising just 0.1 per cent between the calendar years of 2012 and 2013.

The East Lothian town of Dunbar has been chosen as Scotland's first ‘Zero Waste Town’ in a new pilot project.

Imperial Tobacco achieves zero waste to landfill within the first six months of its waste contract with FCC Environment.

Plymouth City Council is to undertake a ‘major reorganisation’ of household waste and recycling rounds in January 2015.

Local authority recycling services in England and Wales produced more carbon dioxide in 2012/13 than they did the year before.

Biogen’s anaerobic digestion plant in Waen begins operations, making it the ‘largest’ facility of its kind in Wales.