A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including rugby hoarding recycling, zero landfill restaurants and can recycling in forecourts.

Circular business models for refurbished hospital equipment are to be explored in a six-month project run by Axion Consulting and Philips.

Salford City Council could become the third local authority (LA) in Greater Manchester to implement three-weekly waste collections, should a recommended pilot be voted through its cabinet next week.

Will Simpson learns how Barts, the largest NHS trust in the UK, has been leading the way when it comes to waste reduction and recycling.

A new project by the Centre for Process Innovation is developing the use of modified strains of microorganisms to manufacture bioplastics from organic waste products.

Powys will become the second local authority in Wales to implement three-weekly kerbside residual waste collections when the new system begins next Monday.

Pledge 4 Plastics, the national recycling campaign trying to increase the collection of plastic packaging for recycling, has released a video emphasising the potential of recycled plastics.

Recycling systems are in place across the UK, so now we just have to get people to use them. Edward Perchard investigates how campaigns are seeking to drive behaviour change in residents.

Faced with rampant growth in waste generation, the Korean government introduced a pay-as-you-throw system in 1995. Edward Perchard investigates how Seoul is putting its foot down on waste.

Defra has today published the UK government’s response to three consultations relating to the European Commission’s Circular Economy Package.