Three companies have been selected to trial innovative ways to boost the recovery of critical raw materials from household electrical waste.

The fight against the UK’s 10 million tonnes of annual food waste is to get ‘fresh messaging’ and ‘engaging campaigns’ following the development of a ‘Joint Ambition for a Zero Food Waste Britain’ by Hubbub and Unilever.

Investigations have begun after a Wandsworth recycling centre run by Cory Environmental caught fire for the second time in a week.

Cory Environmental Group’s simplification of its waste collection services has continued with the sale of its national waste brokerage businesses to waste management services company Reconomy.

The possibility of one consistent recycling system being used in Scotland is edging closer after the Scottish Government announced that half of the country’s councils have signed up to the Scottish Household Recycling Charter.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Amey’s new Environmental Services business, Gloucestershire waste, recycled plane products and sustainable visionaries.

Collection consistency is still a priority for the government, despite signs that investigations into the possibility of limiting the number of different kerbside waste collection systems have not gone as planned.

Creditors to the New Earth Solutions Group are likely to miss out on over £9 million after the waste management company was sold out of administration, according to the company’s administrator.

A Dorset waste operator has been hit with a suspended jail sentence and a £20,000 fine after running a ‘haphazard’ illegal waste oil storage and processing plant in the Dorset countryside for over a decade.

It’s hot outside, but you don’t necessarily have to feel guilty about eating that ice cream, as the by-products from its production could be being used to produce ‘green’ energy instead of going to landfill.