The Department for Communities and Local Government is set to abandon its campaign for weekly waste collections due departmental spending cuts, according to reports.

The use of single-use carrier bags in Wales has dropped by 71 per cent since a charge was introduced in 2011, raising up to £22 million in the process, says a new Welsh Government report.

Kerry McCarthy, Labour MP for Bristol East, will introduce a bill to Parliament next week to address the unsustainable levels of waste within the food industry.

If the 2.6 million tonnes of refuse-derived fuel exported from the UK in 2014 were processed domestically, it would contribute just 0.8 per cent to renewable electricity generation, says a new RDF Export Industry Group report.

The Environment Agency has received funding worth around £470,000 from the European Union to go towards tackling environmental crime.

A £25-million glass recycling facility in Lanarkshire will benefit Scottish drinks manufacturers, according to Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead, who opened it yesterday.

Businesses and national litter groups have called for an advisory committee on litter to enable a coordinated, long-term plan in the fight against litter.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change has launched a consultation proposing reduced tariffs and spending caps to control costs under the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) scheme.

Use of single-use carrier bags in Northern Ireland has risen by 8.2 per cent from the figure recorded for the first year after introducing a carrier bag levy, according to Department of the Environment statistics.

Alupro has announced revisions to the protocol applied to aluminium packaging recovered from incinerator bottom ash, following approval from Defra and the Environment Agencies.