Salford City Council is to pilot three-weekly residual waste collections next month, becoming the third local authority in Greater Manchester to reduce the frequency of bin collections in search of reduced disposal rates.

Four South Yorkshire councils are consulting on a joint waste strategy to aid the growth of the Northern Powerhouse.

Fife Council is seeking the views of residents who have taken part in its four-weekly residual waste collection trial, after reporting increased recycling and low contamination.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a charity recycling scheme in Northern Ireland, new waste-derived fuels and work on a landfill nature reserve.

National anti-litter charity Keep Britain Tidy says that England should ‘hang its head in shame’, after Wales announced this week [http://resource.co/article/wales-eclipses-national-recycling-target-11138] that its recycling rate had reached 59 per cent.

Ambition around reducing waste and improving the quality of recycling should not be sacrificed in the race to set ever higher ‘headline’ targets, says CIWM Chief Executive Steve Lee.

The European Parliament’s Environment Committee has today set out its desired amendments to the Circular Economy Package, including increased recycling targets, the removal of TEEP exemptions to the separate collection of materials and mandatory separate food waste collection.

The Welsh recycling rate for local authority collected municipal waste rose to 59 per cent for the 12 months to December 2015, meeting its target of 58 per cent for the end of the 2015/16 financial year.

Veolia has been named as the preferred bidder for an eight-year contract to deliver harmonised waste collection and street cleansing across four boroughs in South London.

Resource Association Chief Executive Ray Georgeson has called for clarity in recycling measurement to repair the current ‘worthless’ European league tables.