How technology is revolutionising the recycling sector

Jennifer McDowall reviews The Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s A New Dynamic 2: Effective Systems in a Circular Economy

Simon Weston, Director of Raw Materials at the Confederation of Paper Industries, provides an update to the state of the recycled paper market.

Though they’re currently banned in the UK, pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) schemes where people pay for how much they use, following the ‘polluter pays’ principle, are popular on the Continent. Jennifer McDowall takes a trip around Europe to find out what we can learn from PAYT practitioners.

Ray Georgeson delivered the third annual Kit Strange Memorial Lecture at the Houses of Parliament at the start of the year, reflecting on the past, present and future of the industry.

Hannah Boxall looks at infrastructure services company FM Conway to find out how it is building up its recycling portfolio.

Resource checks in on one of the first local authorities to embrace the Welsh Government’s Collections Blueprint model, Conwy.

Euro Closed Loop Recycling has been placed into administration just a year after its predecessor Closed Loop was rescued in a pre-pack administration agreement.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a new bio-bean product, Veolia’s latest EfW development and the ‘Endless Lives of Glass’.

A report into Defra’s Reward and Recognition Fund has found that many of the projects funded did not provide good ‘value for money’.