Hull Crown Court sentences two men to prison and seizes over £200 000 after finding them involved in illegal waste activities.

Libby Peake learns how scientists at IBM are using plastic waste to create superbug-fighting nanoparticles.

Keep Britain Tidy has launched a Litter Prevention Commitment in a bid to solve Britain’s ‘litter problem’.

Waste management company Viridor begins construction work on its new £12.5 million plastics recycling facility in Rochester.

Green Investment Bank to invest £7.5 million in a new £15 million anaerobic digestion and composting plant in Enfield, London.

A Director of a rubber and waste tyre treatment company has been sentenced to eight weeks in prison for waste offences.

The Materials Recovery Facility Regulations will not cover facilities that only accept general waste, says Environment Agency.

Countrystyle Recycling has signed a four-year plastic bottle collection contract with Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council in Kent.

Waste management firm Viridor invests more than £1 million in a new flake optical sorting station at its polymer facility.

Ecover has announced it will launch a washing-up liquid bottle made from reclaimed ocean plastic by June 2014.