Refuse fires now account for 48 per cent of all deliberately set secondary fires in Mid and West Wales, according to the fire service.

South Lanarkshire Council has begun delivering new food waste and recycling bins to residents ahead of a recycling service overhaul, which will see paper collected separately for the first time.

A round-up of business news from the waste and resources sector, including Keep Britain Tidy, Biogen, EPRO, and ReFood.

Zero Waste Scotland is calling for evidence on how a deposit-return scheme for drinks packaging could work in Scotland, following on from the release of a report into the subject.

The Welsh Government has introduced a new Environment (Wales) Bill, which includes a ban on incinerating recyclable materials.

Express Newspapers group has removed or amended stories relating to a UK recycling 'scandal', which Eunomia says contained 'significant errors'.

Dr Stuart McLanaghan of environmental consultancy Eden 21 argues for a new resource hierarchy, explaining why we need new metrics for resource use.

The next government should introduce new waste and recycling targets if it is to achieve a ‘green Britain’ by 2030, says renewable electricity firm Ecotricity.

The European Commission’s ‘indicative roadmap’ to its revised Circular Economy Package promises an ‘ambitious’ and ‘effective’ framework that will ‘drive real change’.

EXCLUSIVE: The founder and former Deputy Chairman of ECOPlastics Recycling, Jonathan Short, has set up a new plastics reprocessing venture, Plastics Reclamation Limited.