Veolia has developed a new technology that can process the contaminated paper element of residual waste into pulp material for new products.

Wakefield Council is to move to co-mingled recycling collections in 2015, after internal TEEP test finds separate collections to be neither economically nor environmentally practicable.

The waste electrical and electronic equipment distributor take back scheme is calling on local authorities to apply to its £700,000 fund to further reuse and recycling.

The BBC is to run a new, three-part series on waste next year, with campaigner and chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall presenting the programme.

A round-up of business news from the resource sector, including Recolight, FCC Environment, Viridor, and Remondis.

Nestlé and Unilever are amongst a number of companies working with the resource industry in a new project to ‘create a circular economy for flexible packaging’.

The Organics Recycling Group has published a best practice guide for the organics sector to improve the quality of composting feedstock.

Recycling half of the items littered in England would have an economic value of at least £14.8 million, finds Keep Britain Tidy report.

Signatories of the Hospitality and Food Service Agreement have saved more than £10 million by reducing food waste in one year, finds WRAP.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources industry, including REPIC, WRAP Cymru, and Casepak.