Recycling Association calls for whole supply chain responsibility and to boost recyclate quality in its new Quality First report.

The UK is heading for a residual waste treatment capacity gap by 2030 unless significant new investment in infrastructure and policy frameworks are put in place, according to SUEZ’s new report.

The incoming Welsh Landfill Disposal Tax, one of the first new Welsh taxes in almost 800 years, received Royal Assent last week, hastening its introduction west of the border.

Vicki Hughes from Hadfield Wood Recyclers provides an update on the recycled wood market.

Leading UK environmental bodies have called on the government to modify the EU Withdrawal Bill, calling it ‘inadequate’ in its current form.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has committed the Scottish Government to a deposit-return scheme in her Government's Programme for 2017/18.

Groups from across the waste industry have warned that proposed Environment Agency changes to waste wood classification could reduce the UK’s recycling rate by two to six per cent a year.

Environmental coalition Greener UK says clarity is needed on how environmental law will be enforced after Brexit, as the government prepares to publish its position paper on the European Court of Justice.

Waste and resource use have been identified as a key area for action in the Mayor of London’s draft London Environment Strategy, which sets a municipal recycling target of 65 per cent for 2030.

Essex-based waste company T J Cottis Transport has been fined just under £20,000 for knowingly depositing waste illegally to act as flood defences on protected farm land in Essex.