The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has released its first ‘Digest of Waste and Resource Statistics’ collating official UK waste statistics for ‘ease of use’.

Zero Waste Scotland and The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce are to host circular economy workshops in February.

Falkirk Council has announced that it will roll out its three-weekly waste collection service to the last remaining 25,000 properties in March.

The Scottish Institute of Remanufacture, based at University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, has been officially opened.

Businesses are being urged to apply to the £3.8-million Scottish Recycling Fund to further reprocessing, repair, and remanufacturing work.

A new law has come into effect in New York making it illegal for residents to put some electronic equipment in kerbside waste collections.

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

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

A man who was caught trying to illegally export electrical waste to Africa has only to complete 200 hours of unpaid work and pay nominal costs for his crime.

Veolia has developed a new technology that can process the contaminated paper element of residual waste into pulp material for new products.