The UK needs a partnership approach to implementing a national plan to combat litter, delegates tell the Communities and Local Government Committee’s litter inquiry.

A judge has ordered The City of Cardiff Council to disclose how Viridor’s new incinerator can be classed as waste ‘recovery’ rather than ‘disposal’.

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has approved plans for a controversial incinerator to be built in Gloucestershire, overruling the local council’s concerns.

Firefighters have extinguished a 'small fire' involving electrical waste at Viridor’s Bargeddie Recycling Hub near Glasgow.

Members of the environment, sustainability and manufacturing sectors, including Peter Madden and Emma Elston, have been recognised in the New Year’s Honours list for 2015.

BW Riddle has been fined £70,00 and ordered to pay £18,000 in costs after a worker was left with broken ribs after falling from a conveyor belt.

A consortium comprising technology firm Babcock & Wilcox Volund and construction company Interserve has been chosen to build Viridor’s incinerator in East Lothian.

Six waste and resource management bodies have written to the main political parties in England outlining policy priority suggestions for the next administration.

Bryson Recycling is calling on householders in Northern Ireland to recycle more, as it will donate £1 for every tonne recycled to charity.

Organic waste recycling company TEG Group plc has entered into administration after failing to secure funding.