A new paper released by Viridor states that the waste management system is ‘no longer fit for purpose’ and encourages the adoption of an aggregated services model.

The amount of household waste sent to landfill in Northern Ireland has dropped below 100,000 tonnes despite an increase in the total waste collected and a slight drop in recycling.

Cannock Chase District Council has removed food waste collection from its recycling system, instead asking residents to include it with residual waste.

Ray Georgeson, delivering the 2016 Kit Strange Memorial Lecture, yesterday called for more united lobbying by recycling industries and ‘an active and enabling state’ to improve the sector’s prospects.

Mandatory separate collection systems for the main recyclable material streams and biowaste should be established in all EU member states, says a study published by the European Commission last week.

Defra has released its second annual ‘Digest of Waste and Resource Statistics’, which collates official UK waste statistics for ‘ease of use’.

New appointments have been made at ACE UK, WRAP, VEKA Recycling, Viridor and Europen.

Company director fined after a number of conditions were breached covering odour, dust and site drainage, affecting local residents of Woods Recycling Services, Ampthill

Work has begun to remove all bring sites from Derbyshire Dales after the council determined that contamination issues and a revamped kerbside collection system rendered the service ‘unsustainable’.

Businesses are being sought to apply for £35,000 awards to encourage innovation around ‘future retail’ practices across a number of themes including food waste reduction.