The London Borough of Hounslow has become the latest local authority to take control of its waste services after it agreed to bring waste and recycling collection in house from November 2016.

Fife Council has become the first local authority in Great Britain to introduce once-a-month bin collections, after beginning a nine-month trial in the town of Glenrothes this week.

Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is to bring its kerbside collection system in house, while also simplifying what is currently considered the ‘most complicated’ service in the UK.

The operational assets of a landfill waste recycling centre will be sold in an online auction after a High Court judgment on debt owed by its owners.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a new solid recovered fuel facility, a food waste recycling scheme and deliberately contaminated collections.

Waste management companies and councils must establish appropriate models to share the risk of volatile markets, says a new report published by Resources & Waste UK.

Recycling company Knowaste has submitted plans to develop a new absorbent hygiene product plant in West London following the 2011 closure of its first UK facility in the West Midlands.

The Dorset Waste Partnership has approved proposals to charge for non-household waste at household waste recycling centres in a bid to address its overspend.

The Welsh Natural Resources Minister has launched a £2-million Welsh Government investment in a new kerbside-sort system that aims to improve recycling performance in the Merthyr Tydfil.

Guidance has been published to help operators of materials recycling facilities comply with upcoming regulations introduced by the Scottish Government.