Wolverhampton Council’s waste services are set to make a budget loss of £800,000 for 2019/20, following the implementation of a new garden waste collection service in 2019.

Paul Vanston, CEO of the Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment (INCPEN), calls on the resources and waste industry to be bold in its actions to combat climate change and advance the circular economy in 2020.

Flintshire County Council could be set to introduce fines for residents that do not recycle their waste properly as part of a stronger approach to recycling enforcement.

In a bid to drive up recycling rates, Swansea Council's ‘Keep it Out’ campaign bans recyclables in black bin bags. Tansy Dando reports.

Local authorities across the UK are declaring Climate Emergencies, committing to reducing their carbon emissions to net zero. But how can their waste management contribute to that aim? Imogen Benson reports.

West Sussex County Council has announced that it will be ending payments of recycling credits to District and Borough Councils from 1 April 2020, claiming the system has ‘not driven any significant improvement in performance’.

CAG Oxfordshire (Community Action Groups Oxfordshire) is to become a community benefit society from December 2019, going it alone 18 years after it was set up.

Mars Wrigley and social enterprise Behaviour Change have launched a free toolkit to help local authorities and property owners to reduce gum littering.

The Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC) has confirmed that Carole Taylor will continue as Chair for another two-year term.

The latest statistics from DAERA show that Northern Ireland’s recycling rate has risen 1.9 per cent to 50 per cent.