A roundup of this week’s news including Croydon’s litter campaign and Recycle for Wales’s tips for a greener barbeque.

WRAP has released a new video to encourage farmers to use anaerobic digestate alongside conventional fertilisers.

The Institute of Civil Engineers calls for a coherent waste management body in BIS to deliver a circular economy and improve infrastructure.

G & P Batteries has doubled its capacity to around three million cells per week with a new sorting system.

A scrap metal company in Sussex has been sentenced for safety breaches after a site worker lost both legs.

Two new UN agency reports show that plastic waste costs $13 billion worth of annual damage to marine ecosystems.

Food and garden waste from households in Greater Manchester is being recycled into multi-purpose compost for residents.

The UK Green Investment Bank has released its financial performance report for 2013-14.

Defra is funding a study to scope out viable approaches for collecting flexible packaging to improve recycling and remanufacture of aluminium.

Recycling rates increase by 30 per cent as Newtonabbey Borough Council trial Bryson Recycling ‘Wheelie Box’.