Recofloor, the national vinyl recycling scheme, has set a new annual collection record by collecting 508 tonnes of material for recycling in 2015.

Waste treatment company Clean Power Properties has suffered two setbacks to proposed waste gasification and pyrolysis developments in Corby and Carmarthenshire in the past week.

The Environment Agency has significantly missed targets to cut down on high-risk illegal waste sites in England, instead seeing an increase of 19 per cent since April 2014.

The regional stage of a national enterprise competition run by beverage giant Coca-Cola Enterprises, challenging secondary school students to design a litter awareness campaign, has begun this week in the lead-up to a national final in March.

The Somerset Waste Partnership is considering introducing a three-weekly residual waste collection as part of its upcoming business plan.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has been awarded £500,000 by the People’s Postcode Lottery to support the mobilisation of its New Plastics Economy initiative [http://resource.co/article/new-plastics-economy-could-revolutionise-industry-10776], launched last month.

The Joint Trade Association has been chosen to operate the UK’s waste electrical and electronic equipment compliance fee mechanism for 2015, the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills has announced.

A Sainsbury’s survey has found that many British families believe that they waste no more than £30 worth of food a month, but in fact throw away an estimated 44 meals per month, worth £58.30 per household.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a change at the top of the EAC, a new WISH website and Environment Agency landfill training.

A second reading to Parliament of the Food Waste (Reduction) Bill has been postponed until 4 March after urgent questions took precedence in the House of Commons agenda.