The Budget 2015 reveals that government will provide an extra £4.2 million to tackle waste crime, reform the Landfill Communities Fund, and introduce a raft of initiatives to “put Britain at the forefront of the online sharing economy”.

Bedfordshire waste management firm Monoworld Limited has been ordered to pay more than £23,000 for the illegal shipment of waste.

David Squelch, the man suspected of murdering a colleague at Cory Environmental’s waste depot in Tunbridge Wells, has had his first court appearance.

The Material Security Working Group has introduced a parliamentary paper reiterating calls for the establishment of a central Office for Resource Management.

SITA UK will henceforth be known as SUEZ environnement, the name of its parent company, as the group unites its subsidiary brands under one name.

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.

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.

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.

Liquid food waste specialist Tank Industrial Maintenance Limited has been ordered to pay £38,000 after being found guilty of illegal land spreading.