Manchester City Council has approved a move to slimline its residual collections in order to save on increasing disposal costs to councils working under the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority.

Viridor is set to continue collecting dry kerbside recycling from Kent for another two years after the Kent Resource Partnership revealed that it had passed recycling targets a year early.

An English Waste Strategy has been suggested ahead of MPs meeting today to grill stakeholders on the Treasury’s impact on sustainability, and waste targets in particular.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Mick George’s contract with Cambridge University and WRL Glass Media’s increasing exports.

Oldham Council is likely to follow several of its neighbouring authorities in implementing three-weekly residual waste collections to reduce the impacts of rapidly rising waste disposal costs in Greater Manchester.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a new contract for Casepak, Huhtamaki investment and Bristol’s Big Green Week.

This week saw members of the waste and resources industry from across the country descend on London for two days of discussion on the sector's hot topics. The EU referendum, the future of food waste, the Circular Economy Package and producer responsibility were all on the agenda. Here are some of the things that we learned.

Rory Stewart’s speech at Resourcing the Future 2016 hinted at scaled back ambitions.

‘Small changes can have enormous environmental and economical benefits’ says Environment Secretary after analysis shows that half of the waste in Welsh bins is recyclable.

The waste and recycling service in the London Borough of Hounslow will be ‘in jeopardy’ unless an unexpected £16.6 million investment into the council’s in-house waste company is immediately approved, according to a council report.