In collaboration with local authorities, manufacturers and retailers, the Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment (INCPEN) is publishing a guide for packaging in the Internet age.

Industry stakeholders have broadly welcomed the government’s consultation on revision to the Waste Regulations 2011. This follows December’s adjournment of the judicial review brought against Defra and the Welsh Government by members of the Campaign for Real Recycling (CRR).

Business Secretary Vince Cable today announced that the Green Investment Bank will be headquartered in Edinburgh with its main transaction team based in London.

The construction, property management and services company Kier Group, has appointed Nicola Peake as Managing Director of its environmental business division.

WRAP has produced a new guide to help local authorities improve their strategies for kerbside collections of plastic bottles

Magistrates Court issues maximum fines to two companies involved in the illegal transportation of mixed waste to China. Metal recycling company BW Riddle, and Chungs UK Ltd, the scrap metal merchants, both pleaded guilty to charges

The UK's largest aluminium recycler, Novelis, today reported that it was temporarily reducing its intake of used beverage cans (UBCs) and announced plans for investment

Waste Collection Authority Performance chart ordered by recycling rate

UK League Table chart

Councillors in West Dorset have paved the way for countywide waste and recycling services after approving plans to share schemes with other councils from May 2014.