Sheffield City Council is consulting on introducing shared bins to high-density areas, amongst other proposals, in a bid to save £3.4 million by 2017.

The Dorset Waste Partnership is to continue collecting recycling via a two-stream collection system after finding separate collections are not ‘economically practicable’.

A strike planned by members of trade union GMB working as refuse and recycling workers for Kier Environmental Services has been called off, to allow the waste management company to address concerns raised.

Wales’s Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant has confirmed the evidence base of Wales’s Collection Blueprint is currently being independently reviewed, but defends the approach as ‘the most sustainable option’.

Materials recovery facility operators in Scotland will need to begin sampling incoming and outgoing material from 1 October 2015, it has been revealed.

Six people have been arrested for waste crime and human trafficking following dawn raids led by the Environment Agency.

Fife Council announces plan to trial monthly waste collections, making it the first council in Britain to do so.

Police have closed Tunbridge Wells Borough Council’s waste depot in North Farm Lane as they investigate the murder of a man who was fatally stabbed there this morning.

DCLG is to push ahead with legislation that bans councils in England from charging residents for using household waste recycling centres, despite local government opposition.

The Director of the Dorset Waste Partnership, Steve Burdis, has been temporarily suspended from his role as the partnership reviews how the body overspent on its budget by £2.8 million last year.