Smart phones are increasingly designed to give up the ghost after a year or two, but Dutch company Fairphone is attempting to change that by putting the power back into the user's hands.

A new Greenpeace campaign is calling on phone producers to create ‘true innovation’ after a survey found that consumers want more longevity and better recycling options for their phones.

Lamp recycling has almost doubled in the last five years, according to figures released this summer, with Recolight, the UK’s largest lamp recycling scheme, recycling almost one lamp every second.

Three companies have been selected to trial innovative ways to boost the recovery of critical raw materials from household electrical waste.

Two million tonnes of electrical waste has been collected by the REPIC compliance scheme since 2007, but what makes up the bulk of such a vast amount of waste?

The director of a Leeds-based recycling company has received a record jail sentence and faces the seizure of £2.2 million after fraudulently claiming recycling fees from government-backed schemes.

News of appointments at the Environment Agency, Ricardo Energy and Environment and REPIC.

A bill has been introduced to the US Congress to stop the export of electronic waste to China in order to clamp down on operations that ‘undermine national security’ by selling counterfeit goods back to American supply chains.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including an award for edoc, a retirement at WRAP, Cromwell Polythene, MetalMatters and Recolight.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a charity recycling scheme in Northern Ireland, new waste-derived fuels and work on a landfill nature reserve.