The Quality Recognition Award winners were announced at the association’s Annual Lecture in London.

The seminar will focus on the next steps in Wales’ Towards Zero Waste strategy.

The coffee chain will introduce a five pence paper cup charge across all 950 UK stores later this month to encourage the use of reusable cups.

A new media campaign from Hampshire County Council seeks to educate the public about the unlimited fines fly-tipping can incur.

Reconomy, a provider of outsourced waste management solutions, has added resource management consultancy Helistrat to its investment portfolio.

Recycle NI is the first trade body for the waste, recycling and resource sector in Northern Ireland, representing the views of member businesses to policy makers, the media and other stakeholders.

Manchester-based Axion Recycling Ltd has been purchased in full by metal recycling firm S. Norton & Co.

Walk for WasteAid 2018, a charity event to raise funds for waste management charity WasteAid, raised more than £10,000 for projects in developing countries.

As Gatwick publishes its annual Decade of Change sustainability report, the Carbon Trust has praised the airport for its successful diversion of non-hazardous waste streams from landfill.

Torbay Council is set to bring bin collection company Tor2 back under council control following months of disruption to bin collections in the area.