Though they’re currently banned in the UK, pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) schemes where people pay for how much they use, following the ‘polluter pays’ principle, are popular on the Continent. Jennifer McDowall takes a trip around Europe to find out what we can learn from PAYT practitioners.

Ray Georgeson delivered the third annual Kit Strange Memorial Lecture at the Houses of Parliament at the start of the year, reflecting on the past, present and future of the industry.

Exeter-based Devon Contract Waste has acquired the commercial arm of  Somerset-based Wellington Waste in a deal that sees it gain around £220,000-worth of contracts.

Resource checks in on one of the first local authorities to embrace the Welsh Government’s Collections Blueprint model, Conwy.

Resource learns about a project to provide Bedouin and Palestinian villages with free biogas, which is also dealing with waste and helping to promote peace in the Middle East.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a new bio-bean product, Veolia’s latest EfW development and the ‘Endless Lives of Glass’.

The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management has partnered with legal firm Dentons to launch a new guide on the impacts of illegal waste activities, as part of its year-long campaign to ‘Fight Waste Crime’.

Wrexham Council is to roll out a new recycling system featuring stackable ‘Wheelie Boxes’ next week in an effort to simplify the recycling scheme, increase recycling rates and improve efficiency.

SEPA is to lead three days of action aimed at tackling cross-border criminal waste activity between England and Scotland next week.

Waste management staff in South Ayrshire will be striking for six days starting this week due to an ongoing dispute over the introduction of new shift patterns.