A new European Remanufacturing Council has been launched with the aim of more than doubling the rate of remanufacturing across Europe, as well as promoting awareness and understanding of the remanufacturing industry.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including jail for a London fly-tipper, executive movements at WRAP, Recycle Week 2017 and Blue Peter going green.

Peterborough City Council is considering ending its waste contract with Amey 17 years early – the second authority looking at early termination of a long-term contract in the last couple of weeks.

The UK’s most heavily-concentrated area of offices is to be targeted for Hubbub’s Square Mile Challenge, providing specialist bins to boost the recycling of takeaway coffee cups.

Consumer goods company Procter & Gamble is producing a limited run of recyclable shampoo bottles made from recycled beach plastic in what it says is ‘the first major step’ in establishing a supply chain taking in plastic waste collected from beaches by charities.

Trials of a technology to recycle medium-density fibreboard have proven successful, bringing commercially-viable recovery of the material one step closer, according to developers MDF Recovery.

Council leaders in Sheffield have voted to rip up the city’s waste management contract with Veolia 19 years early and reprocure its services in an attempt to secure a ‘new and improved’ arrangement.

Unilever is to use biomethane supplied by GENeco to power five of its sites in the UK and Ireland as it moves towards a carbon positive future.

Businesses have backed the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, supporting a report outlining the potential for more than £9 trillion in benefits, and called on the UK government to help reach the global targets.

Packaging group INCPEN has appointed former Kent Resource Partnership manager Paul Vanston as its new CEO.