The second phase of WRAP’s Waste Prevention Loan Fund was announced yesterday (12 June) at the annual CIWM conference. The size of the fund has increased and selection criteria have been relaxed to encourage more people to take up the offer.

HMRC has announced that it has set up a temporary landfill tax hotline

Ninety per cent of the actions proposed in last year’s Waste Review have been completed or are underway, Recycling Minister Lord Taylor of Holbeach told the attendees of CIWM’s Conference yesterday (12 June), while other speakers called for a 'review of the review'.

Chief Executive of the Resource Association, Ray Georgeson responds to criticism over recycling charter.

Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Edward Davey has announced the release of government responses to the Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation (ECO) consultations, ahead of the introduction of the Green Deal in October 2012.

Scottish people will receive money or vouchers for returning empty bottles and cans to shops as part of a new fund set up by Zero Waste Scotland.

It’s 2011. The world’s a little warmer, sea levels are a little higher and people in the Maldives are a little jumpier. And if Environment Secretary David Miliband is to be believed, part of the solution to climate change could lie in the pockets of the British public.

HSBC has announced today (11 June) that it is launching a five-year Water Programme to tackle the global water crisis.

WRAP has announced that food waste collection services for businesses will increase after seven waste collection contractors are awarded funding.

Nederman UK has published a report suggesting that British manufacturers are losing millions of pounds through inefficient metal recycling.