Bolton Council has reportedly saved £3.4 million in waste disposal costs since the introduction of its ‘slim bins’, while also increasing the authority’s recycling rate to over 50 per cent.

Two former waste company directors have been ordered to pay over  £750,000, one of North Wales’s largest ever fines, following the illegal storage of over 4,000 tonnes of waste.

ReFood Commercial Director Philip Simpson suggests the recently announced £200-million waste budget boost for local authorities is masking rising landfill disposal costs, for which there are economic alternatives.

China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection has released a list of materials that will be banned from import from the start of 2018. Steel, copper, nickel, aluminium, zinc and tin were notable absences, according to Reuters.

SUEZ has responded to Eunomia’s debated overcapacity findings with its own prediction stressing that the UK is heading for a shortfall in residual waste treatment capacity.

Social platform Neighbourly will now be accepting non-food product donations to its surplus food redistribution scheme, with Marks & Spencer being the first retail partner to contribute.

Fercell Engineering has discovered a new solution for aluminium-based swarfs produced by machining processes.

The Birmingham bin dispute appears to be drawing to a close after Unite announced it was suspending industrial action as the city council came back with a favourable settlement for striking refuse workers.

Eunomia Research & Consulting has released more figures in defence of its prediction that the UK would reach an overcapacity in residual waste treatment infrastructure by 2020/21 in response to criticism the ESA.

Beverage carton recycling provision by local authorities has jumped from 10 per cent to 92 per cent in the past decade.