Police in the Chinese province of Jiangsu have arrested three men after an illegal operation recycling medical waste into children’s toys and tableware was uncovered.

A former director of a Scottish waste firm that was used as a front for a million-pound heroin smuggling ring has been sentenced.

Two siblings who dumped tonnes of tyres across unlit roads at night have been fined £5,000 each after a council-led investigation.

A man has been fined after he punched an Environment Agency officer checking on the progress of an order to remove illegal waste from his farm.

A Wigan-based skip hire company that has made national news in a video showing the contents of one of its skip being emptied into a front garden has been fined for six unrelated abuses of environmental protection laws.

Local authorities across the country have stepped up action against fly-tippers in the build-up to Christmas, as they make use of new powers to issue on-the-spot fines and crush vehicles used in fly-tipping operations.

Apple has agreed to pay $450,000 to California regulators amid accusations of mishandling of electronic waste in its Silicon Valley facilities.

Southampton-based Princess Cruises has been ordered to pay a £31-million penalty for illegal dumping of contaminated oil waste off the English coast.

A round up of news from the waste and resources sector including new bins for Croydon, global growth in the AD industry, investment in the European paper industry and more.

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