Boomeco Ltd, a wood recycling and waste handling company in Avonmouth, has been fined £14,000 for its role in a fly infestation that affected homes in Bristol last year.

National environmental charities have written to David Cameron expressing concern that 10 environmental policies have been ‘cancelled or weakened’ in the first months of his new government.

As the drive to improve recycling rates gathers momentum, FCC Environment's Steve Bell warns that there is a risk of reuse falling by the kerbside and calls for a change in legislation.

The Environment Agency has urged the public to be aware of the signs of waste crime as a man is fined £4,800 for illegally storing hazardous waste.

Totternhoe Metal Recycling Limited has been fined £12,000 after a man delivering scrap metal was injured when trapped by a crane.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs is calling on members of the waste industry to respond to a consultation on its revised Waste Duty of Care Code of Practice.

Around 50 staff at Brickkiln Waste Limited in Londonderry are to lose their jobs after being told that the company is going into administration.

Feely Skip & Grab Hire Ltd has been ordered to pay a total of £19,000 for operating a waste facility without an environmental permit.

Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service and County Council have called for tighter regulation and planning controls for recycling plants, after seeing 40 site fires in the last five years.

The former Director of tyre recycling business Cartwright Projects Ltd has been given a four-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, for safety failings that led to an employee losing his forearm.