Scottish Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead has pledged to cut food waste in Scotland by a third by 2025, as part of Scotland’s new circular economy strategy, ‘Making Things Last’.

More than 250 jobs are set to be lost in a ‘major transformation’ of Lancashire County’s Council’s waste operations that will see two six-year-old sites run by Global Renewables mothballed.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a food waste communications trial, a Veolia employment project and the removal of street bins in Dorset to encourage recycling.

Scouting groups across England and Wales have been challenged to put their ‘recycling skills to the test’ as they compete against each other to recycle the most household packaging.

Welsh local authorities have recorded an average municipal waste recycling rate of 57 per cent in the 12 months to September 2015, six months before they must meet a government target of 58 per cent.

The number of facilities reporting their figures under the Materials Facilities Regulations sampling requirements has reduced from a low baseline figure, while validation queries raised by regulators has also reduced.

Wrexham Borough Council has implemented a new Every Can Counts on-street drink can recycling programme at key public and leisure locations throughout the county.

‘WEEE Love Robots’ event in Cheshire aimed to promote the importance of recycling, reuse and repair of electrical and electronic goods

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a new Eunomia department, bio-based sacks for Grundon and a new CEO at Amey.

A new alloy containing 75 per cent recycled aluminium has been successfully integrated into structural components of the new Jaguar XE model, aluminium manufacturer and recycler Novelis announced yesterday.