Confusion, poor decision making and inefficiency at Cheshire East council led to plans for a waste transfer station in Macclesfield to be scrapped at a cost of more than 700,000, according to an ...

The Environmental Services Association (ESA) has issued a response to comments made in Parliament last week by Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Nature Mary Creagh, warning that her statement ...

In a damning verdict on Labour's record on waste policy, Communities Minister Bob Neill said yesterday (15 June) that there had been a failure to win over the public on waste and drive up recycling ...

The British waste industry has already slashed its emissions well ahead of government targets but could go further, according to a Dirk Hazell of the Environmental Services Association. Speaking at ...

A Midlands waste management company has been placed in administration. Matthew Hardy and Andrew Turpin, both of Poppleton & Appleby, have been appointed joint administrators over the affairs of County ...

Landfill tax could cost the region £130m if action is not taken according to a public services union. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get access to all of our ...

Parliamentary briefings from the eThekwini and Nelson Mandela Bay municipalities have revealed persistent illegal dumping, inadequate infrastructure and severe funding shortfalls. As a result, the ...

Despite the threats that improper handling of hazardous waste, particularly electronic waste (e-waste), poses to human health ...

E-waste management in Bangladesh is currently a victim of weak policy and systemic disorder. Approximately 97% of e-waste is processed informally due to the lack of good governance, a Transparency ...

Bangladesh’s hazardous waste, particularly electronic waste (e-waste), is being managed amid serious governance failures, as authorities have largely failed to enforce existing laws, according to a ...

Municipal failures in waste management are threatening South Africans’ constitutional rights to a healthy environment, the parliamentary committee on environment, forestry and fisheries has been told.