Central government has announced the 10 winners of the first round of the Innovation in Waste Prevention fund.

Wakefield Council is to move to co-mingled recycling collections in 2015, after internal TEEP test finds separate collections to be neither economically nor environmentally practicable.

The waste electrical and electronic equipment distributor take back scheme is calling on local authorities to apply to its £700,000 fund to further reuse and recycling.

The Waste & Resources Action Programme has officially registered as a charity.

Government must work to ‘lift the regulatory burden’ on remanufacturing if its ‘enormous economic, social and environmental potential’ is to be realised.

A round-up of business news from the resource sector, including Recolight, FCC Environment, Viridor, and Remondis.

FCC Medio Ambiente SA has been chosen as the preferred bidder for Edinburgh and Midlothian councils’ residual waste contract.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council warns it may have to make 500 people redundant and undertake a ‘wholesale evaluation’ of a range of services, including waste, to manage its budget.

Defra is to investigate the possibility of introducing a regulatory treatment standard for refuse-derived fuel after consultation reveals ‘market failures’.

The Autumn Statement reveals little on waste, but confirms that government is seeking to reform the Landfill Communities Fund and will introduce a loss on ignition testing regime for MBT waste from 1 April 2015.