At the end of last year, the Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) released its data report on England's ...

Defra says it expects changes to local authority collections infrastructure to increase consistency in recycling to be done “at the earliest opportunity”. Defra is currently consulting on measures to ...

Also, while Defra has set out that every local authority will be required to collect food waste for recycling by 31 March 2026, this will not apply to those linked to a “long-term residual waste ...

Defra today published the first set of estimates from the Department's 2006/7 survey of municipal waste. This is the third year that results are based on information supplied by local authorities ...

Defra has been slammed for "stepping back" from waste and needs to show strong leadership in order to improve England's recycling rate, a cross-party committee of MPs has said. The call came in a ...

Defra has launched its first call for research proposals as part of its three year waste and resources research programme, worth around £15 million. The programme areas selected for this first call ...

A consultation on how to implement the revised EU Waste Framework Directive in England and Wales was launched today by Defra, the UK government department responsible for policy and regulations on the ...

GOVERNMENT Minister Hilary Benn has been told his own bureaucrats are threatening to sink his vision of a network of on-farm waste digesters, producing biogas for heat and for driving generators.

In a week when ministers were announcing massive cuts to environmental funding, government officials were enjoying a three-day junket abroad. More than 20 people, including a team from the ...

Defra was also criticised for not doing enough to help local authorities tackle fly-tipping, which is rife in urban areas and also blights rural communities, with 1.1 million reported incidents in ...

HMRC and Defra target waste offenders. Story by Mohamed Dabo • 6h. T he UK government introduced landfill tax in 1996, aiming to discourage the disposal of waste in landfills and promote recycling.