Mal Williams remembers Mike Croxford, a pioneer of both kerbside sort and community recycling and former head of Newport Wastesavers, who passed away this May.

Wrexham Council is to roll out a new recycling system featuring stackable ‘Wheelie Boxes’ next week in an effort to simplify the recycling scheme, increase recycling rates and improve efficiency.

The ESA has recommended a new system of producer responsibility that transfers resource ownership from local authorities to product supply chains, which it says will improve the quality, recyclability and use of recycled content.

Recycle Now is using street magic to demonstrate how recycling metal and glass packaging items can be transformed into new containers.

Sadiq Khan, who was elected Mayor of London last week, has promised to make the capital ‘one of the world’s greenest cities’ through measures including ‘reinvigorating efforts to increase the amount London recycles’.

More than 30 businesses across New York City have pledged to divert at least half of their waste from landfill and incineration this year as part of the city’s Zero Waste Challenge.

Edinburgh’s new recycling service has been dubbed a ‘success’ by the council after the amount of waste recycled in the homes receiving the new service increased by 29 per cent in 2015/16.

A broader definition for ‘biowaste’ and obligatory separate collection of organic waste should be included in a revised Circular Economy Package, according to the Bio-Based and Biodegradable Industries Association.

Over 500,000 tonnes of PVC was recycled in Europe in 2015, according to VinylPlus, the European PVC industry’s sustainable development programme.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including new trustees for Keep Britain Tidy, a new partnership for Egbert Taylor and a recycling award for Cambridge.