A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Viridor, ACE UK, and a search for Croydon fly-tippers.

A new British Retail Consortium progress report reveals that retailers are ‘on track’ to meet their voluntary environmental targets by 2020.

Reading Borough Council is considering introducing food waste collections to resdients as part of a five-year plan to drive up recycling rates.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has released its first ‘Digest of Waste and Resource Statistics’ collating official UK waste statistics for ‘ease of use’.

The City of Edinburgh Council will roll out two new recycling trials for those living in tenements next month, in a bid to boost recycling rates.

Zero Waste Scotland and The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce are to host circular economy workshops in February.

The Advisory Committee on Packaging has announced its new members, which include Jonathan Short of ECO Plastics and Rick Hindley of Alupro.

New data published for the second quarter of 2014/15 shows that, for the first time since 2009/10, household recycling rates have stalled in Northern Ireland.

The first year results of Courtauld Commitment 3 show that manufacturing and retail waste is on the rise, despite a voluntary target to reduce it by three per cent.

Northern Ireland has extended its five-pence carrier bag charge to include all new ‘cheap’ carrier bags, including reusable ones.