Reading Borough Council is considering introducing food waste collections to resdients as part of a five-year plan to drive up recycling rates.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has released its first ‘Digest of Waste and Resource Statistics’ collating official UK waste statistics for ‘ease of use’.

Haulage and plant hire company Rory J Holbrook Limited has been ordered to pay £247,278 for illegally handling waste on land in Blofield, Norfolk.

A new power plant that recovers used cooking oil to produce electricity has been officially opened in North Yorkshire.

Zero Waste Scotland and The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce are to host circular economy workshops in February.

New data published for the second quarter of 2014/15 shows that, for the first time since 2009/10, household recycling rates have stalled in Northern Ireland.

The first year results of Courtauld Commitment 3 show that manufacturing and retail waste is on the rise, despite a voluntary target to reduce it by three per cent.

Government and retailers must ‘do more’ to reduce the ‘unacceptable’ levels of food waste produced in the UK, says the EFRA Committee.

Falkirk Council has announced that it will roll out its three-weekly waste collection service to the last remaining 25,000 properties in March.

New figures released by the British Retail Consortium show that the seven major UK supermarkets produced just 1.3 per cent of all UK food waste in 2013.