Sheffield City Council leaders will vote next week whether to end the authority’s waste contract with Veolia 19 years early.

Two North Sea oil platforms are on their way to Great Yarmouth for recycling after a partnership between Veolia and oil industry logistics firm Peterson was awarded two contracts to recycle rigs at its facility in Norfolk.

Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee has written to Business Secretary Greg Clark to call for added scrutiny over the sale of the Green Investment Bank to Macquarie.

WRAP is calling for a united effort after it found that £13 billion of edible food was wasted by UK households in 2015, a situation Friends of the Earth calls ‘the definition of a scandal’.

WRAP has published results for its three-year agreement aiming to reduce food and packaging waste and improve waste management in the hospitality sector.

Simply Cups, the UK’s only paper cup recycling scheme, has partnered with a company that claims to have made a takeaway cup that is recyclable at traditional paper mills.

Greater producer responsibility, more consistent recycling systems and the revisitation of pay as you throw should all be considered to make English recycling more efficient, says the Green Alliance.

Surrey County Council has taken the first steps towards creating a county-wide waste collection and disposal service, which it says could save taxpayers up to £12 million a year.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector including a skip firm’s lost licence, a jail warning for a ‘shameless’ Croydon fly-tipper and the Great British Spring Clean.

The Resource Association has called on government to recognise the importance of high-quality recycling collection as it considers new business packaging recycling targets.