English local authorities recycled the same amount of dry recyclables between July and September 2014 as they did in the corresponding period the year before, despite collecting more waste.

Ray Georgeson considers whether all the new waste regulations and policies mean we are suffering from separation anxiety

Chancellor George Osborne stated in his Budget 2015 speech that “we are all part of one United Kingdom”. However, approaches to waste and recycling across the different governments are becoming increasingly fractured. Resource reports

England and Wales now have the same legal requirement for local authorities to separately collect certain dry recyclables – but uptake of separate collections in the two countries has been vastly different. Annie Kane finds out why

After reviewing the separate sort vs. co-mingled debate [http://resource.co/article/going-separate-ways-10089], Annie Kane takes a look at a local authority that has chosen to undertake co-mingled collections, and the reasons for doing so

Annie Kane takes a look at a local authority that has chosen to undertake kerbside sort collection, and the reasons behind the decision to do so.

Despite stutters in recycling figures, Eunomia’s third Local Authority Recycling Carbon Index (included with this issue of Resource), shows the carbon figures associated with household collection are improving. Simon Hann has more

Newport City Council has closed its household waste recycling centre on Docks Way, Maesglas, to tackle a fire that broke out at the site yesterday.

Surrey County Council has given final approval to a £90-million gasification and anaerobic digestion ‘Eco Park’ in Shepperton, despite protestations from some councillors.

Workers’ union GMB has confirmed that an eight-day strike by refuse drivers in Barking and Dagenham will begin today after talks with the council failed.