The rules require all plastic packaging to be recyclable or compostable by 2032. Nobody — not the advocates, not the producers — thinks that's going to happen the way the law is written.

Circular economies don’t follow the ‘take, make and dispose’ model but try to keep products in use for as long as possible by ...

Whitmire balances his budget on the backs of Houston’s most vulnerable, writes Jordan Thomas. But there's another way.

A cemetery with overflowing bins has now been found to have fly-tipped rubbish dumped within the grounds, adding to concerns ...

The Government's plans to introduce a citizenship test is being labelled as a waste of taxpayer money. Applicants would have ...

New food waste bins have been supplying rats with “accessible ready meals” near Yarm allotments, a councillor has argued.

Residents said they had seen and heard of more rats and mice near Yarm allotments, though they said that the new recycling ...

Westfield in York accounts for nearly a quarter of all fly-tipping incidents across the city this year, data has revealed.

While smart cities have boosted life satisfaction for residents in some parts of world, in others, communities don’t have ...

Beside a mountain of destroyed rubble, Samah al-Dabla lives in a makeshift tent with her children, gripped by a fear that did not exist in their lives before the war: the rats that now invade their ...