Viridor has begun operations on a short-term residual waste contract with the Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority, while construction of the SITA Sembcorp incinerator continues.

Planning applications for shale gas exploration will be subject to a new dedicated planning process that aims to deliver faster decision-making, the government has announced.

An alternative treatment project for Gloucestershire’s residual waste, Community R4C, has officially launched in the hopes of undermining the Javelin Park incinerator.

Large-scale incidents of fly-tipping seem to be ever increasing, and though education is the key to reduction, Croydon has taken the novel approach of naming and shaming those caught to deter others. Thomas Dimech investigates

Provocative posters are being used by Kingston Council in an attempt to encourage residents and visitors to help turn the borough from ‘clean to pristine’.

Glasgow City Council is to provide food waste recycling bins to 300,000 local homes over the next two years in order to comply with Scottish waste regulations.

Croydon Council are to fine Veolia after an average of 1,800 collections per week were missed following the implementation of a new collection system in June.

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 introduction of a three-weekly residual waste kerbside collection system in Bury has seen the recycling rate jump by eight per cent in just two months, the council says.

The London Waste and Recycling Board has announced that it is to invest up to £3 million into a private equity fund to help ‘accelerate the move to a circular economy in London’.