The government has launched the controversial sale process for the Green Investment Bank, inviting investors to purchase existing government shares and provide additional capital.

Marcus Gover, Director at WRAP, shares his vision of an England where householders know exactly what goes ‘in’ recycling bins and what stays ‘out’.

Exports of refuse-derived fuel from England and Wales grew by over half a million tonnes in 2015, according to the RDF Industry Group.

The Resource Association is amongst the organisations warning that progress made on environmental issues would be lost should the UK decide to leave the European Union.

Defra has been roundly criticised after its newly-published five-year plan virtually ignored the waste and resources sector.

Scottish Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead has pledged to cut food waste in Scotland by a third by 2025, as part of Scotland’s new circular economy strategy, ‘Making Things Last’.

More than 250 jobs are set to be lost in a ‘major transformation’ of Lancashire County’s Council’s waste operations that will see two six-year-old sites run by Global Renewables mothballed.

Welsh local authorities have recorded an average municipal waste recycling rate of 57 per cent in the 12 months to September 2015, six months before they must meet a government target of 58 per cent.

A new competency framework designed to improve health and safety compliance within the waste management industry has been launched by the SWITCH Forum.

A recycling firm has been handed a confiscation order of nearly £350,000 for failing to remove waste from an unlicensed area.