Metal packaging recycling campaign MetalMatters is being launched in Greater Manchester and Rhondaa Cynon Taf.

Welsh recycling rates rise by two per cent, with the country recycling, reusing, or composting 54.3 per cent in 2013/14.

Natural Resources Wales has opened a consultation on Clean Power (UK) Limited’s application to operate a pyrolysis plant in Carmarthenshire.

The London Waste and Recycling Board is calling on those wishing to build waste projects in London to apply to its £20-million infrastructure fund.

Conwy County Borough Council will roll out its Trolibocs separate collection system to all ‘suitable houses’ by spring 2015.

Plans to build an 11-megawatt biomass plant in Avonmouth have been rejected by Bristol City Council, following public concerns over air quality.

Viridor has secured a two-year contract with North Lanarkshire Council to continue separating its co-mingled dry recyclables.

New figures published by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency show that landfilling reached an ‘all-time low’ in 2012.

A fire involving a ‘large quantity of recycling materials’ has broken out at CEW Recycling Group’s facility in St Helens.

Zero Waste Scotland has launched a £90,000 capital grant fund to enable materials recovery facility operators to purchase testing equipment.