Zero Waste Scotland is calling for evidence on how a deposit-return scheme for drinks packaging could work in Scotland, following on from the release of a report into the subject.

Swindon Borough Council is calling on those impacted by last year’s fire at Averies Recycling to submit details of the experience to a special inquiry so that ‘lessons can be learned for the future’.

The Welsh Government has introduced a new Environment (Wales) Bill, which includes a ban on incinerating recyclable materials.

GMB members working as refuse drivers for the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham Council will strike for a further 22 days between 13 May and 7 June over loss in overtime.

English local authorities recycled the same amount of dry recyclables between July and September 2014 as they did in the corresponding period the year before, despite collecting more waste.

Ray Georgeson considers whether all the new waste regulations and policies mean we are suffering from separation anxiety

Chancellor George Osborne stated in his Budget 2015 speech that “we are all part of one United Kingdom”. However, approaches to waste and recycling across the different governments are becoming increasingly fractured. Resource reports

England and Wales now have the same legal requirement for local authorities to separately collect certain dry recyclables – but uptake of separate collections in the two countries has been vastly different. Annie Kane finds out why

After reviewing the separate sort vs. co-mingled debate [http://resource.co/article/going-separate-ways-10089], Annie Kane takes a look at a local authority that has chosen to undertake co-mingled collections, and the reasons for doing so

Annie Kane takes a look at a local authority that has chosen to undertake kerbside sort collection, and the reasons behind the decision to do so.