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.

The Waste & Resources Action Programme has officially registered as a charity.

Government must work to ‘lift the regulatory burden’ on remanufacturing if its ‘enormous economic, social and environmental potential’ is to be realised.

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’.

FCC Medio Ambiente SA has been chosen as the preferred bidder for Edinburgh and Midlothian councils’ residual waste contract.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council warns it may have to make 500 people redundant and undertake a ‘wholesale evaluation’ of a range of services, including waste, to manage its budget.

SITA UK’s incinerator in Great Blakenham has begun exporting power to the National Grid.

Defra is to investigate the possibility of introducing a regulatory treatment standard for refuse-derived fuel after consultation reveals ‘market failures’.