Liz Goodwin will join the World Resources Institute in September as a Senior Fellow and Director after leaving WRAP this week.

Viridor is set to continue collecting dry kerbside recycling from Kent for another two years after the Kent Resource Partnership revealed that it had passed recycling targets a year early.

Over 30 businesses, retailers and suppliers including Starbucks, Greggs and McDonald’s have pledged to take action to address the waste caused by disposable paper cups.

An English Waste Strategy has been suggested ahead of MPs meeting today to grill stakeholders on the Treasury’s impact on sustainability, and waste targets in particular.

The Wood Recyclers Association is urging the Environment Agency to reconsider elements of its revised fire protection plan guidance, which it says does not put enough emphasis on preventative measures.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Mick George’s contract with Cambridge University and WRL Glass Media’s increasing exports.

New appointments have been made at WRAP, S Norton & Co and the Confederation of European Paper Industries.

Research into converting waste potatoes into gels that could be used in pharmaceutical, beauty and home products is seeking to turn the millions of tonnes of vegetables thrown away each year into a manufacturing resource.

A prototype barrier designed by The Ocean Cleanup to catch marine litter in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is to be deployed in the North Sea this week.

Oldham Council is likely to follow several of its neighbouring authorities in implementing three-weekly residual waste collections to reduce the impacts of rapidly rising waste disposal costs in Greater Manchester.