Waste management company Shanks Group plc is set to pay £5 million in extra costs after a four-month delay to its £750-million South Kirkby waste plant.

Gloucestershire County Council is to pay a further £17 million of public money to Urbaser Balfour Beatty to hasten construction to the controversial Javelin Park incinerator near Stroud.

A group investigating the opportunities and challenges of creating more consistency in kerbside collection is to present recommendations to Defra later this month.

Recycle for London is asking Londoners to do ‘Just One Thing’ differently to boost recycling rates in the capital.

Two men who dumped an 80-metre trail of rubbish on Tooting Common have each been jailed for four years.

A communal bin scheme is to be introduced in parts of Newcastle’s West End in an effort to reduce the dumping of illegal waste in the area’s back streets.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including the Clean Britain Awards, Christmas jumper upcycling and electrical appliance reuse.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Ultra Biofuel lorries, franchising of recycling centre shops and Scottish funding for convenient stores.

East Lothian Council has partnered with Cromwell Polythene and Coral products for its weekly kerbside food waste collections.

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has granted an environmental permit for a controversial £800-million incinerator in Deeside, Flintshire.