The number of materials facilities reporting input and output sampling figures has again dropped according to data published by the Waste & Resources Action Programme.

Hugh’s War on Waste is set to return to our screens tonight, waging new wars on waste culprits Amazon and coffee giants Starbucks, Caffe Nero and Costa and revisiting FareShare to see what developments have been made.

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.

An operation has begun to determine why a concrete partition wall holding back tonnes of scrap metal collapsed at a recycling facility in Birmingham yesterday, killing five workers.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a new Tamar AD facility, cyclist safety with Grundon and foot-pedal operated street bins.

In what is being billed as ‘an excellent example of circular economy in practice’, enzymes will be used to convert unsorted household waste into biogas at a ‘bio plant’ in Cheshire.

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

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including an award for edoc, a retirement at WRAP, Cromwell Polythene, MetalMatters and Recolight.

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

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.