Heading towards Auckland's zero waste goal, about 10,000 households will soon face a trial of fortnightly pick-ups.

A gang has been jailed for illegally dumping tonnes of waste in a field in a Lincolnshire village leading to a £1.2m clean-up ...

Changes to household waste and recycling in Stockton have been approved, including a £40 subscription fee for garden waste.

Councils across Devon are recycling less of the rubbish they collect and burning far more. Burning household rubbish in giant ...

Mrs Huang was in charge of our rubbish brigade. This is not an official position. She was under five feet tall, with a fine ...

After stopping its reliance on coal for electricity, the UK’s dirtiest means of production is now burning household rubbish ...

New figures show more than a quarter of rubbish is now sent to energy from waste facilities which generate electricity.

Pikitup, the waste management company of the City of Johannesburg, urges residents not to dispose of builders’ rubble or garden refuse in their 240-litre waste bins. Heavy waste can damage the lifting ...

As ratepayers in Western Australia's biggest regional city continue to pay millions to have waste trucked to alternative ...

Greenpeace on Saturday said more than 3,200 pieces of rubbish have been collected in its clean-up operations along two of ...

A BBC investigation has found that burning household rubbish in incinerators has become the dirtiest way of generating power ...