West Sussex County Council has granted Grundon Waste Management planning permission to build a recycling and recovery centre in Ford.

Epping Forest is to continue using a twin stream co-mingled recycling service, after Biffa finds that separate collections would not be TEEP.

Neath Port Talbot Council is to roll out a new recycling system from the end of July, in a bid to improve recycling rates.

The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee has approved Phillip Dilley as the new Chair of the Environment Agency.

Central government has committed to buy resource-efficient food from 2017 through the new ‘Plan for Public Procurement’.

Hitting 70 per cent recycling in Wales with current single-stream systems will be ‘very difficult’, says WRAP’s Marcus Gover.

Norfolk County Council is to send some of its waste to SITA UK’s incinerator in Suffolk, after abandoning its own incinerator plans.

Bury Council has become the first council in England to commit to adopting three-weekly collections of household residual waste.

DECC is to launch a new £20-million fund to reduce energy demand and improve energy efficiency in businesses.

Wales’s Minister for Natural Resources, John Griffiths, urges businesses to respond to collection guidance consultation.