tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/search/news-and-communications 2025-07-26T00:01:02+01:00 HM Government tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/11-billion-boost-to-improve-local-recycling-services-across-england 2025-07-26T00:01:02+01:00

Money from packaging reforms to fund better recycling collections and cut costs for taxpayers

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/new-survey-shows-just-27-of-all-waste-crime-incidents-reported 2025-07-23T09:18:04+01:00

Environment Agency publishes results of National Waste Crime Survey 2025, showing almost three quarters of all waste crimes go unreported

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/historic-peatlands-at-the-heart-of-the-industrial-revolution-to-become-new-national-nature-reserve 2025-07-14T10:44:29+01:00

Network of 11 nature abundant lowland peat sites in between Liverpool and Manchester to become a King’s Series National Nature Reserve.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/home-of-devils-punch-bowl-to-become-new-national-nature-reserve 2025-06-27T10:22:17+01:00

• Sand lizards, nightjars and natterjack toads are among the litany of species that people can enjoy at new Wealden Heaths National Nature Reserve in Surrey

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/environment-agency-launches-clean-up-operation-at-hoads-wood 2025-06-26T00:01:04+01:00

Waste management experts drive first batches of harmful material away from nationally significant nature site

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/over-1-million-for-towns-and-cities-to-clean-up-chewing-gum-stains 2025-06-17T11:02:02+01:00

52 councils across the UK will receive funding to remove chewing gum stains and clean up our streets

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/136-million-to-help-families-and-charities-reap-benefits-of-surplus-farm-produce 2025-06-10T00:01:00+01:00

Grants to ensure more than 19,000 tonnes of surplus food will be redistributed to homeless shelters, food banks and charities across the country

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/single-use-vapes-banned-from-1-june-2025 2025-05-31T00:01:05+01:00

Under the Government’s Plan for Change, move will stop the flood of litter on to nation’s streets and protect young people from getting hooked on nicotine

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/historic-garden-of-england-protected-with-new-sparkling-national-nature-reserve 2025-05-30T00:00:00+01:00

Eighth Kings Series National Nature Reserve to be announced

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/public-urged-to-report-suspected-waste-crime-as-new-heatmaps-published 2025-05-28T00:00:00+01:00

New maps published showing nearly 17,000 reports of waste crime across England in 2023 and 2024, demonstrating offending is rife

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/uk-backs-businesses-to-trade-carbon-credits-and-unlock-finance 2025-04-17T12:42:52+01:00

British businesses and organisations better supported to trade carbon credits as part of new work to establish the UK as the global hub for green finance.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/ditch-single-use-vapes-as-ban-deadline-looms 2025-04-01T00:01:07+01:00

Shops encouraged to sell all remaining stock before 1 June 2025 deadline

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/new-rules-simplifying-recycling-for-workplaces-in-england-come-into-force 2025-03-31T00:01:06+01:00

New regulations requiring businesses to separate recycling from waste come into effect

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/government-to-plant-first-national-forest-in-30-years 2025-03-21T00:01:00+00:00

20 million trees are to be planted across Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset by 2050.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/15-million-food-surplus-fund-now-open-for-applications 2025-03-12T10:27:55+00:00

Food redistribution charities can submit applications for grants starting at £20,000

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/cop16-concludes-in-rome-with-a-landmark-agreement-to-mobilise-resources-for-people-and-nature 2025-02-28T21:57:56+00:00

The UK welcomes the positive conclusion to negotiations at the resumed meeting of CBD COP16, which saw the international community make progress towards halting and reversing nature loss by 2030

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/national-waste-crime-survey-2024-25-launched 2025-02-03T14:36:26+00:00

The third National Waste Crime Survey (NWCS) is now open for three weeks to understand the scale, impact, and deterrence of waste crime across England

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/ivory-act-protections-come-into-force-for-four-more-species 2025-01-28T13:20:01+00:00

Act will ban the importing, exporting and dealing in items containing ivory from Hippopotamus, narwhal, killer and sperm whale

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/government-to-clean-up-communities-with-deposit-return-scheme-for-plastic-bottles-and-cans 2025-01-27T00:01:02+00:00

Introduction of deposit return scheme will be a step forward in ending the throwaway society and cleaning up Britain

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/government-to-crack-down-on-waste-incinerators-with-stricter-standards-for-new-builds 2024-12-30T00:00:00+00:00

Almost half of all waste collected by local authorities in 2022/23 was incinerated with resources that could be recycled being lost