Glasgow City Council is to provide food waste recycling bins to 300,000 local homes over the next two years in order to comply with Scottish waste regulations.

England's recycling rate hit 44.8 per cent in the calendar year 2014, up by just 0.6 per cent on the year before, provisional statistics from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs show.

The Waste & Resources Action Programme and Valpak have announced that they are to undertake new research into paper and card packaging flows.

The introduction of a three-weekly residual waste kerbside collection system in Bury has seen the recycling rate jump by eight per cent in just two months, the council says.

The United Nations has agreed a draft for its 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, which seeks to halve global food waste, ‘substantially reduce waste generation’ and curb climate change.

Households in East Devon will receive residual waste collections every three weeks next month, as part of a new trial collection service.

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.

Somerset Waste Partnership is asking waste treatment suppliers to suggest alternatives to landfill, in the hope of reducing the £12 million it spends on waste disposal.

The City of Cardiff Council has begun a new waste service this week, which limits the amount of residual waste householders can put out and bans the use of black bags.

The House of Lords has used the ‘Green Card’ initiative to call on the European Commission to take a strategic approach to food waste reduction in the forthcoming Circular Economy Package.