This year, the Stop Food Waste Programme is encouraging everyone to start the New Year afresh by rethinking food storage habits, sorting the freezer and avoid throwing out up to €700 worth of food every year.

Louth County Council has successfully prosecuted a further offender under environmental protection legislation.

The Competition Authority is investigating complaints about the new dominance of private waste firms in Dublin following the transfer of the city council’s household bin collection service to Greyhound.

The provisional Northern Ireland Municipal Waste Management Statistics, July - September 2011, show that almost 56% of municipal waste was sent to landfill during the second quarter of the year.

A councillor who represents a community labelled one of the country’s worst litter blackspots has launched a blistering attack on an anti-litter group.

The investment arm of Abu Dhabi's green energy company, which commands over $540m of capital, has revealed it is "very interested" in the UK waste sector.

The EPA have recently appointed RPS to be their consultants for the formulation of the National Waste Reports for the next 3 years.

More than 2,000 Kerry householders who are paying reduced charges for waste collection could face higher charges following privatisation of the service.

Northern Ireland Environment Minister Alex Attwood joined a storytelling group in Whiterock library to launch the 'Rubbish Monster' book series.

These Guidance Notes are in a series issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which provides guidance on the determination of Best Available Techniques (BAT).

The State's ethics watchdog has ruled there is no basis to a complaint about the handling of the Poolbeg incinerator development by former environment minister John Gormley.

Dublin City Council’s 110 binmen lifted their last bags and wheelie bins on Friday 13 January after almost 150 years of the local authority cleaning the capital’s streets.