The median cost of sending waste to MRFs has increased by 316 per cent in the past year, according to the WRAP.

Local authority body LARAC has criticised REA and ESA reports into the future of the resources industry and says that more collaboration is needed to take the sector forward.

Waste management company Shanks has confirmed that it is considering the purchase of the Van Gansewinkel Groep, one of the largest waste collection and recycling businesses operating in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Overcapacity of residual waste treatment will exist across Northern Europe from 2026, according to the tenth issue of Eunomia Research & Consulting’s biannual ‘Residual Waste Infrastructure Review’.

The organisers of Glastonbury Festival have been ordered to pay £31,000 in fines and costs after untreated human waste escaped from a temporary storage tank and polluted a nearby river.

A new ACR+ analysis of European pay-as-you-throw systems highlights their potential for reducing residual waste and increasing recycling.

Fife Council has become the first British local authority to use dual-fuel bin lorries after taking delivery of two converted vehicles.

Sainsbury’s is to test a new appliance aimed at preventing shoppers from buying food that they don’t need as part of its ‘Waste less, Save more’ initiative.

Viridor has signed a £700 million contract with the Clyde Valley Residual Waste Project, the first shared services contract for Scottish Councils, to divert the waste of five local authorities from landfill.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a Resource Efficient Scotland programme, unexploded World War II artefacts, Smurfit Kappa's redeveloped recycling depot network and a Resource Futures environmental workshop.