As thousands of Glastonbury festival-goers pack up their tents today they will wade through fields of litter, not mud.

Plans by a Welsh council to restrict the amount of rubbish to be collected to two sacks per fortnight have provoked anger, with more than 1,000 people signing a petition opposing the limit.

Refuse and recycling workers at a Green Party controlled council will launch a week-long strike over pay tomorrow, causing collections to be suspended.

In the face of a seemingly never-ending recession, a group of Italian workers is attempting to reassume control of its own destiny by occupying the factory that laid them off – in order to start their own business.

French-owned utility firm Sita UK is set to take over the disposal of rubbish in west London in a £900 million scheme that will mean 300,000 tonnes of trash a year are no longer sent to landfill.

Ten thousand tons of cardboard has been burning through the night in a “severe” fire at a paper mill.

A council survey on wheelie bins which asked residents about their sexual orientation has been branded a waste of taxpayers' money by politicians.

Tomatoes, potatoes, even courgettes, are perfectly happy in pots says our green-fingered correspondent.

As garbage-burning plants proliferate, Britain could end up with too little waste to put in them

The affluent London borough of Kensington and Chelsea is removing litter bins claiming they attract the wrong kind of rubbish

The battle of the bins has broken out again after analysis of Government figures showed that collecting refuse fortnightly - a policy considered by the Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles, to be rubbish – increases recycling.

The waste management group Shanks has won a contract to recycle 15,000 tons of glass for the brewer Heineken – the equivalent of nine million 330ml bottles.