The Environmental Services Association (ESA), a trade body for the waste management industry, has published new guidelines to boost the capture of landfill gas and maximise renewable energy production at landfill sites.

With adverts all around us, we’re all exposed to thousands of commercial messages a day – and children are no exception. Most people agree that this is bad for them, but what effect does it have on the environment and on waste generation? Libby Peake finds out.

Sam Sandilands and Ella Curnow of Burges Salmon solicitors keep us abreast of the latest developments in waste legislation

You can’t just bung a bucket on the street and ask passers-by to deposit their waste in it – there’s a lot to think about with street-scene waste services. From eye-catching design to practicality and, increasingly, multi-functionality, bin design is anything but basic

With the recast of the European WEEE Directive finalised and the Red Tape Challenge completed in the UK, Recolight’s Nigel Harvey provides an update on possible changes to the waste electrical and electronic equipment regulations.

The WEEE Directive has been enshrined in UK law for nearly a decade now, so we take a look at the (sometimes bumpy) road the legislation’s travelled and find out what turns lie ahead for future handling of waste electrical and electronic equipment.

When weight-based recycling targets were first introduced, Defra money made free green waste collection services look like an easy win. But can local authorities continue to justify the expense (and the added waste generation) in these straightened times?

No longer to be swept under the carpet, niche streams like, well, carpets, are starting to receive attention from the recycling industry, and to good effect: diversion rates have gone up from 10 per cent in 2008 to 16.5 per cent in 2011.

A 100 per cent recycling total has always seemed to be an unreachable target for any material, but next year, Brazil may well be the first country to recycle all its aluminium cans. Resource finds out how they’ve done it

Only weeks after dropping out of the environmental ratings system, the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT), Apple has announced that it is rejoining the scheme, stating that ‘all eligible Apple products are back on EPEAT’.