Cardiff faces fines of up to £21 million unless it takes action to recycle an additional 32,000 tonnes of waste a year in order to meet its 2020 recycling target of 64 per cent.

Three days of expert discussion and presentations covered a lot of waste and resources ground at the RWM Conference in Birmingham this week. Here’s a snapshot of some of the things that we picked up wandering the show floor.

A round-up of the more quirky stories from the world of waste and resources.

William McPherson, Projects Director at Re-tek gives an update on the latest developments in the WEEE recycling and reuse sector.

Leonie Butler spoke to Furniture Re-use Network CEO Craig Anderson about getting social aspects of sustainability recognised and working out what motivates people to do the right thing and reuse.

How could increase food waste collections help to boost the anaerobic digestion sector?

Resource talks to Zero Waste Week founder Rachelle Strauss about the origins of the annual waste reduction awareness campaign and the importance of perseverance in everyone’s zero waste story.

The Prospecting Secondary Materials in the Urban Mine and Mining Wastes (ProSUM) project is set to launch the first Urban Mine Knowledge Data Platform to increase the recovery of WEEE, end-of-life vehicles, batteries and mining wastes.

Social platform Neighbourly will now be accepting non-food product donations to its surplus food redistribution scheme, with Marks & Spencer being the first retail partner to contribute.

Waste and resource use have been identified as a key area for action in the Mayor of London’s draft London Environment Strategy, which sets a municipal recycling target of 65 per cent for 2030.