SITA UK has released an interactive digital map illustrating UK local authority recycling rates, in a bid to encourage residents to ‘engage’ more with recycling.

Local authority-owned waste management company Ubico will take over waste collections in Tewkesbury once the council buys into the company next year.

Wales’s Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant backs kerbside sort collections and warns that the 70 per cent recycling target is ‘not optional’

GMB members employed by Serco in Mid Sussex will go on strike on 14 October following a dispute over pay.

Preston City Council’s cabinet agrees to discontinue the city’s food waste collection service in a bid to reduce costs.

Scotland’s Environment Secretary says he is ‘not ruling out’ statutory recycling targets, after most councils miss 2013 recycling target.

North Yorkshire County Council agrees to take the Allerton Park incinerator project to financial close, despite losing PFI funding.

A campaign to increase carton recycling has been launched by the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and Environment UK.

Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council’s executive approves proposals to switch to kerbside-sort recycling with three-weekly residual collection.

Kerbside recycling collections in Mendip could be delayed for a further six weeks due to driver shortages, warns Somerset Waste Partnership.