A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including rugby hoarding recycling, zero landfill restaurants and can recycling in forecourts.

Scottish TV chef Tony Singh has teamed up with the Scottish Government to help people to plan ahead with their food purchases this Christmas, and has also produced recipes for leftovers.

Northern Ireland has fallen short of its 45 per cent recycling rate target for 2015, reporting a national figure of 41.4 in new data.

Provisional data for the first quarter of 2015/16 shows that the average recycling rate in Wales has risen to 57 per cent.

Friends of the Earth Europe has called for the European Commission to ramp up the ambition of its upcoming Circular Economy Package, after a leaked draft implied that expected measures have been watered down.

A fleet of biogas-fuelled buses could be running in Bristol as early as next year as part of an initiative to improve air quality in the city.

Reports have emerged that waste management group Biffa is seeking takeover bids, as the company announces a 19.4 per cent increase in pre-tax earnings.

The benefits of better waste management in the EU to greenhouse gas emissions are obscured by current statistics reporting, says Eunomia.

Northern Irish councils could save up to £4 million while boosting the country’s economy through universal adoption of a stacked recycling box system, says Bryson Recycling.

A married couple that run Daniels Recycling has been ordered to pay £130,000 for illegally exporting 187 tonnes of hazardous electronic waste to Africa.