Our habits don’t wholly reflect the well-worked mantra ‘waste as a resource’. Charles Newman casts an evaluator’s eye over our rubbish heap

Off the Wall - phone speakers made from musical instruments and insect dinners

Leeds City Councils has announced it will begin the second phase of its alternate weekly bin collections in November.

Rugby Borough Council plans to close all recycling ‘bring’ sites by the end of the month, due to decline in use.

Zero Waste Scotland launches campaign to raise awareness of new waste regulations, set to come into force in 2014.

The Waste & Resources Action Programme, produced new communications templates for local authorities. Scale and cost is the problem.

City of Edinburgh council agrees to ‘streamline’ its kerbside recycling system to 139,000 households from 2014.

Zero Waste Scotland launches online poll to ‘gauge how Scottish people, communities and businesses feel about litter’.

Scotland launches new Construction Material Exchange tool to promote reuse and reduce construction sector waste.

Zero Waste Scotland organises first Litter Week of Action to tackle issue of road and railway litter.