Data published on the Environment Agency’s National Packaging Waste Database shows that between January and March 2012, only 1.72 million tonnes of waste was recovered or recycled compared with 1.80 million tonnes during the same period the year before.

Smurfit Kappa Cor-Trade, wholesale suppliers of corrugated packaging and corrugated sheet, recently carried out a sustainability survey that was directed solely at their UK customer base.

Allegations of serious wrongdoing have been levelled at Cardiff City Council by the South Wales Echo. The paper reported that workers at the city’s MRF claimed material intended for recycling was being buried in an adjacent landfill

Focus groups have been created to help shape the future of the RWM Exhibition, the UK’s largest resource efficiency and waste management event

DCLG’s Weekly Collection Support Scheme for waste collection services has published the criteria needed for local authorities to submit their outline bids, but a survey undertaken by the Sunday Telegraph has found the scheme to be largely unpopular for residual waste

M&S has launched a new initiative to reduce the amount of clothing that gets sent to landfill in the UK. The ‘shwopping’ scheme will encourage shoppers to donate an item of clothing for each one that they buy. The donations will be collected by Oxfam to resell or recycle.

Four countries have been referred to the EU Court of Justice for failing to transpose the Waste Framework Directive into national law. Continued non-compliance with the directive could result in financial sanctions against the countries.

The Renewable Energy House (REH) in Brussels, headquarters of the European Renewable Energy Council, has pledged to become the first zero waste office building in Europe

The government announced this Wednesday (25 April) that it has directly invested £80 million into the waste and recycling sector.

SITA report shows contribution waste to resources industry can make to UK economy