Waste

Strategy aims to boost food recycling by scaling up collections, improving communication and ensuring better collection quality

New plant will use enzymes to process household waste into organic slurry, which is then used to generate biogas

Clean tech firms emerge as the big winners in latest VOOM start up, as Branson declares 'we need every entrepreneur out there to move into clean energy'

If tests of the 100 metre-long barrier that collects rubbish on the sea's surface are successful, it could be deployed at a larger scale in the 'great Pacific garbage patch'

Plant is the first capable of handling a feedstock made only of chicken litter

Environment Minister's listening mode is welcome, but the waste and recycling sector wants to see an end to 'policy vacuum' sooner rather than later

Environment minister George Eustice tells MPs' committee that the government supports a ban on polluting plastic microbeads in cosmetics

Operations director promoted to replace outgoing boss, Liz Goodwin

Parliamentary research briefing highlights how a third of fish in the English Channel are contaminated with microplastics

Platform aims to bring together companies, innovators and regions to accelerate move to zero-waste economy