Waste treatment company Clean Power Properties has suffered two setbacks to proposed waste gasification and pyrolysis developments in Corby and Carmarthenshire in the past week.

The Somerset Waste Partnership is considering introducing a three-weekly residual waste collection as part of its upcoming business plan.

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 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.

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.

Company director fined after a number of conditions were breached covering odour, dust and site drainage, affecting local residents of Woods Recycling Services, Ampthill

Work has begun to remove all bring sites from Derbyshire Dales after the council determined that contamination issues and a revamped kerbside collection system rendered the service ‘unsustainable’.

Only eight waste collection authorities have implemented changes to meet separate collection requirements for key recyclable materials, according to an Environment Agency report.

Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority is forecast to overspend by as much as £2.5 million by the end of the year.