Local authorities in Northern Ireland experienced a drop in recycling rates last year, despite a fall in landfilling, due to an increase in municipal waste arisings.

Jonathan Essex, Chair of South East Green Party and a councillor at Surrey County Council, is calling on the council to halt its incineration plans and invest in recycling.

FCC Environment has been awarded a seven-year contract to operate Torfaen’s household waste recycling centre and waste transfer station.

Croydon Council wants help in tracing two fly-tippers caught on camera illegally dumping waste in Upper Norwood, Croydon.

Worcestershire County Council will survey district councils as part of the potential creation of a joint waste authority with Herefordshire County Council.

Wakefield Council has postponed its new co-mingling service until summer, following delays to the delivery of equipment needed for the new service.

A round-up of news from the waste and resource industry, including frozen billboards and hydrogen cars.

Wiltshire Police are seeking witnesses to an ‘altercation’ at Trowbridge Household Recycling Centre that saw one man injured.

Weymouth & Portland Borough Council has commissioned a report looking to the impacts of leaving the Dorset Waste Partnership after finding the Recycle for Dorset service a 'fiasco'.

East Lothian Council is to introduce a new food waste service and switch from weekly to fortnightly waste collections in a bid to raise recycling rates.