Following a flurry of media disparagement around the 2014/15 stats onlocal authority recycling rejects, we analyse England’s recycling data to truly understand the figures.

The Environment Agency dispatched enforcement teams across the Thames Valley this week in a bid to put a stop to illegal waste activities.

A 73-year old businessman from Middlesbrough has been given a suspended sentence after negligent environmental practices caused a waste fire that destroyed his firm.

Interserve has been served a notice of termination to its contract with Viridor after ‘continually and repeatedly’ failing to meet milestones on its Glasgow gasification plant.

The Welsh Government and the county of Rhondda Cynon Taf have called on local businesses to come up with innovative new solutions to allow every part of the mattress to be recycled as part of a competition this winter.

Serco has been awarded three new contract extensions and one new contract to provide waste collection services for councils.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a school food waste initiative, smart bin success and an anti-littering poster.

Co-Leader of the Green Party has tabled an early day motion calling for the introduction of a bottle deposit return scheme (DRS) as part of the National Litter Strategy.

Bidwell Metals Ltd will close its scrapyard in Radstock, Somerset, after a judicial review deemed residents’ noise complaints to be sufficient to force its closure.

The Environment Agency is investigating the possibility of a link between lorry-loads of waste that have been dumped in 20 locations across Essex.