Herman van der Meij, Managing Director RCP Export (Global) for DS Smith, gives an update on the market for recovered fibre market for PRNs.

In a bid to drive up recycling rates, Swansea Council's ‘Keep it Out’ campaign bans recyclables in black bin bags. Tansy Dando reports.

West Sussex County Council has announced that it will be ending payments of recycling credits to District and Borough Councils from 1 April 2020, claiming the system has ‘not driven any significant improvement in performance’.

CAG Oxfordshire (Community Action Groups Oxfordshire) is to become a community benefit society from December 2019, going it alone 18 years after it was set up.

Mars Wrigley and social enterprise Behaviour Change have launched a free toolkit to help local authorities and property owners to reduce gum littering.

The Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC) has confirmed that Carole Taylor will continue as Chair for another two-year term.

The latest statistics from DAERA show that Northern Ireland’s recycling rate has risen 1.9 per cent to 50 per cent.

England’s ‘waste from households’ recycling rate has risen by 0.3 per cent to 45.1 per cent in 2018/19, according to Defra’s latest stats.

The Conservative Party’s 2019 manifesto proposes very little beyond the plans included in the government’s Environment Bill.

The latest quarterly reports indicate Wales’ recycling rate has risen to an all-time high of 67 per cent.