The Somerset Waste Partnership is considering introducing a three-weekly residual waste collection as part of its upcoming business plan.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has been awarded £500,000 by the People’s Postcode Lottery to support the mobilisation of its New Plastics Economy initiative [http://resource.co/article/new-plastics-economy-could-revolutionise-industry-10776], launched last month.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a change at the top of the EAC, a new WISH website and Environment Agency landfill training.

A man was made to pay £16,800 yesterday following charges brought by the Environment Agency for offences regarding waste ‘storage, deposit and treatment’.

A new paper released by Viridor states that the waste management system is ‘no longer fit for purpose’ and encourages the adoption of an aggregated services model.

Ray Georgeson, delivering the 2016 Kit Strange Memorial Lecture, yesterday called for more united lobbying by recycling industries and ‘an active and enabling state’ to improve the sector’s prospects.

Mandatory separate collection systems for the main recyclable material streams and biowaste should be established in all EU member states, says a study published by the European Commission last week.

Steve Lee is to step down as CEO of CIWM at the end of the year, the body has announced.

Defra has released its second annual ‘Digest of Waste and Resource Statistics’, which collates official UK waste statistics for ‘ease of use’.

New appointments have been made at ACE UK, WRAP, VEKA Recycling, Viridor and Europen.