The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has been awarded £500,000 by the People’s Postcode Lottery to support the mobilisation of its New Plastics Economy initiative [http://resource.co/article/new-plastics-economy-could-revolutionise-industry-10776], launched last month.

The Joint Trade Association has been chosen to operate the UK’s waste electrical and electronic equipment compliance fee mechanism for 2015, the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills has announced.

A Sainsbury’s survey has found that many British families believe that they waste no more than £30 worth of food a month, but in fact throw away an estimated 44 meals per month, worth £58.30 per household.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a change at the top of the EAC, a new WISH website and Environment Agency landfill training.

A second reading to Parliament of the Food Waste (Reduction) Bill has been postponed until 4 March after urgent questions took precedence in the House of Commons agenda.

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.

A new guide to help manufacturers avoid unintentional product residue, or the ‘bit at the bottom’, of many consumer products was published by Incpen yesterday.

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.