A bin lorry driver is due to appear in court after being accused of stealing and re-selling 8,225 rolls of food waste bags for an estimated £11,500.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Taylor bins fire-retardant lid, Grundon/Viridor contract, and London Borough of Newham fly-tipping app.

The Waste & Resources Action Programme and Valpak have announced that they are to undertake new research into paper and card packaging flows.

Britain could hit its 50 per cent recycling target with stricter waste laws for companies, organisations and schools in England, according to BusinessWaste.co.uk.

The United Nations has agreed a draft for its 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, which seeks to halve global food waste, ‘substantially reduce waste generation’ and curb climate change.

The London Waste and Recycling Board has announced that it is to invest up to £3 million into a private equity fund to help ‘accelerate the move to a circular economy in London’.

A man whose body was found at Biffa’s waste depot in Avonmouth last year had ‘slept in the bin’, an inquest has determined.

Aaron Jenkins, a 20-year-old man from Burnley, has been charged with the murder of Pendle Skips employee Stephen Whitehead, and is due to appear in court today.

A round-up of business news from the waste and resources industry, including Make Noise, Every Can Counts, Grundon, and William Tracey Group.

Hadfield Wood Recyclers has temporarily stopped accepting waste wood at two of its sites to avoid enforcement action from the Environment Agency.