A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Notting Hill Carnival waste, a youth recycling scheme and a CIWM communications workshop.

Alupro has announced revisions to the protocol applied to aluminium packaging recovered from incinerator bottom ash, following approval from Defra and the Environment Agencies.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs is taking steps to improve compliance of aluminium reprocessors, following a shortfall in PRNs issued towards tatutory business targets for 2015.

Residents in three districts of Ayrshire are being called upon to boost household recycling of metal packaging across the county as part of Alupro’s MetalMatters campaign.

The sampling requirements for the Materials Facility Regulations have been in force for the best part of a year now, but what exactly have they achieved? Resource investigates

Landowners are being urged by the Environment Agency to be mindful of their responsibilities regarding illegal waste storage after 100,000 tyres and 3,000 cubic metres of plastic bales were removed from sites.

New appointments have been made at Novelis, VEKA Recycling, Viridor and Casepak.

England's recycling rate hit 44.8 per cent in the calendar year 2014, up by just 0.6 per cent on the year before, provisional statistics from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs show.

The introduction of a three-weekly residual waste kerbside collection system in Bury has seen the recycling rate jump by eight per cent in just two months, the council says.

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.