A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Mick George’s contract with Cambridge University and WRL Glass Media’s increasing exports.

Pilots to improve recycling for flats in Edinburgh have resulted in a 300 per cent increase in the amount of glass collected for recycling, the council claims.

The median cost of sending waste to MRFs has increased by 316 per cent in the past year, according to the WRAP.

Construction of the controversial Javelin Park incinerator is due to begin this summer, after a lengthy delay caused by planning protests.

The latest materials facilities reporting data shows a consistent level of target input and output, with the number of facilities taking part remaining lower than originally anticipated.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a new bio-bean product, Veolia’s latest EfW development and the ‘Endless Lives of Glass’.

Recycle Now is using street magic to demonstrate how recycling metal and glass packaging items can be transformed into new containers.

A survey into the glass recycling habits of Europeans has found that age and gender are more important factors than nationality when it comes to recycling awareness.

The European glass manufacturers’ trade association has called for mandatory separate collection schemes in order to realise circular economy ambitions, but says that reuse targets are ‘counter-productive’.

Recycling, resource and energy recovery business Viridor has invested £2 million in a further four advanced optical sorters for its glass recycling facility in Sheffield.