Residual waste arisings in Swansea have dropped by 25 per cent in one year following the introduction of a three-bag waste limit.

Northern Ireland’s Department of the Environment has said it will commit £2 million from the carrier bag levy to help fund environmental groups.

The EC will launch the roadmap for its Circular Economy Package ‘within the next few weeks’, and consult on the topic ‘before summer’, according to Director-General for Environment Karl Falkenberg.

Four retailers have raised more than £1 million for charity via Scotland’s single-use carrier bag charge, which was introduced six months ago.

A week of events encouraging the use of reusable cloth nappies starts on Monday (20 April).

The Green Party has released its election manifesto for 2015, outlining that it would spend an extra £4 billion a year on recycling to ‘do away with damaging incineration and landfill’.

A new Zero Waste Scotland study has found that many people litter more than they admit, and are prepared to justify it in certain circumstances.

Weymouth & Portland Borough Council has commissioned a report looking to the impacts of leaving the Dorset Waste Partnership after finding the Recycle for Dorset service a 'fiasco'.

A new trade association for the UK bioeconomy, the Biobased and Biodegradable Industries Association, will officially launch next month.

East Lothian Council is to introduce a new food waste service and switch from weekly to fortnightly waste collections in a bid to raise recycling rates.