Waste campaigners Love Your Tent and Buckinghamshire New University urge festival goers to end ‘wasteland culture’ at campsites.

Scottish Government launches consultation on draft subordinate Landfill Tax legislation to ensure it is ‘effective and efficient’.

Ecover has announced it will launch a washing-up liquid bottle made from reclaimed ocean plastic by June 2014.

The European Commission has awarded €282.6 million of funding to 225 new environmental projects as part of its LIFE+ programme.

Composting education events to be held across the globe from Monday as part of International Compost Awareness Week 2014.

Zero waste campaign Generation Awake releases resource ‘Consumption Guide’ in a bid to educate and change consumption behaviour.

The hospitality sector is set to spend an extra £32 million sending food waste to landfill this year, says waste management firm, ReFood.

Real Nappy Week 2014 has begun, with parents being urged to switch from disposable to cloth nappies to reduce waste.

Northern Irish councils sent seven per cent less waste to landfill in the third quarter of 2013 than they did the year before.

Consumer goods company Unilever launches new packaging technology that uses 15 per cent less plastic.