Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority to build new £1.4 million Household Waste Recycling Centre in Liverpool.

Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Owen Paterson MP, announces support of MetalMatters recycling programme.

British Metals Recycling Association calls for speedier allocation of scrap metal licences after survey finds two-fifths are yet to be issued.

Northern Ireland is to create a new Resource Efficiency Directorate and streamline environmental regulation in a bid to curb waste crime.

Plymouth City Council has installed cameras on its fleet of waste collection vehicles to guard against ‘bogus insurance claims’.

Suffolk Waste Partnership has awarded Viridor with a four-and-a half year contract to ‘sort and market’ mixed household recycling.

Norfolk County Council’s Cabinet has unanimously decided to abandon its King’s Lynn incinerator contract with Cory Wheelabrator.

Oxfordshire Waste Partnership’s voting members unanimously resolve to close the partnership at 'the earliest possible date'.

Cherwell District and South Northamptonshire councils have merged their waste services, in a bid to save money.

A round-up of news from the waste and recycling industry, including Tradebe Healthcare Holdings Limited, Axion Consulting, and LRS.