The possibility of one consistent recycling system being used in Scotland is edging closer after the Scottish Government announced that half of the country’s councils have signed up to the Scottish Household Recycling Charter.

A new report highlights currently available recycling methods for processing composite, such as carbon and glass fibre materials, and includes suggestions for making them commercially viable.

A project run by Jaguar Land Rover with aluminium producer Novelis to develop a closed-loop on car manufacture reclaimed over 50,000 tonnes of aluminium scrap last year.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Amey’s new Environmental Services business, Gloucestershire waste, recycled plane products and sustainable visionaries.

Starbucks is to carry out testing on a new paper cup that aims to provide a solution to the almost 2.5 billion disposable coffee cups that go unrecycled in the UK every year.

Collection consistency is still a priority for the government, despite signs that investigations into the possibility of limiting the number of different kerbside waste collection systems have not gone as planned.

Administrators are seeking an early sale of plastic film reprocessing company PlasRecycle Ltd to ensure that operations can continue.

Voluntary action taken by cosmetic companies to tackle the use of microbeads in their products is in ‘disarray’, according to an investigation by environmental activist organisation Greenpeace.

Creditors to the New Earth Solutions Group are likely to miss out on over £9 million after the waste management company was sold out of administration, according to the company’s administrator.

A Dorset waste operator has been hit with a suspended jail sentence and a £20,000 fine after running a ‘haphazard’ illegal waste oil storage and processing plant in the Dorset countryside for over a decade.