Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council is in search of a UK plastic reprocessor to collect and recycle mixed plastics from its new recycling banks.

The Recycling Quality Information Point has been updated to include details of what the maximum levels of cross contamination are for ‘high-quality recycling’.

Government has backed a new industry partnership campaign, Pledge 4 Plastics, which aims to increase the collection of plastic packaging for recycling.

Packaging recovery notes will be issued for aluminium packaging recovered from incinerator bottom ash for recycling from 1 January 2015.

Novelis partners with European Metal Recycling to allow suppliers to drop off used beverage cans more locally.

With various bodies indicating that glass is the hardest material to separate effectively at a MRF, Resource investigates whether it’s possible to obtain remelt-quality cullet from co-mingled collections

Aluminium recycling organisation Alupro celebrates 25 years of work by reflecting on its achievements.

The British Plastics Federation Recycling Group calls for packaging recovery note targets to favour domestic recycling.

A round- up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Recolight, Novelis, B&M Waste Services and Envac.

Ahead of the implementation of the revised Waste Framework Directive, Veolia is advocating a twin-stream approach for dry recyclables.