Wales’s Natural Resources Minister and Scotland’s Energy Minister have written a joint letter to UK Energy Secretary Amber Rudd warning her that her renewables strategy ‘will significantly damage’ the renewables sector.

A Director of former compost recycling company Wormtech Limited could be liable to pay £1.6 million to cover the cost of clearing illegally-stored waste.

England's recycling rate hit 44.8 per cent in the calendar year 2014, up by just 0.6 per cent on the year before, provisional statistics from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs show.

The Waste & Resources Action Programme and Valpak have announced that they are to undertake new research into paper and card packaging flows.

WRAP's annual report warns that the fall in price of oil ‘threatens to undermine the viability’ of markets for recycled plastics.

Britain could hit its 50 per cent recycling target with stricter waste laws for companies, organisations and schools in England, according to BusinessWaste.co.uk.

National environmental charities have written to David Cameron expressing concern that 10 environmental policies have been ‘cancelled or weakened’ in the first months of his new government.

As the drive to improve recycling rates gathers momentum, FCC Environment's Steve Bell warns that there is a risk of reuse falling by the kerbside and calls for a change in legislation.

The Environment Agency has urged the public to be aware of the signs of waste crime as a man is fined £4,800 for illegally storing hazardous waste.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs is calling on members of the waste industry to respond to a consultation on its revised Waste Duty of Care Code of Practice.