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

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including FoodCycle’s Breadline Challenge, meat in cardboard bins and a profit warning for Sims.

CIWM has criticised Defra’s responses to the European Commission’s Circular Economy Package consultation, saying they highlight ‘Whitehall’s ambivalent attitude to green growth’.

The number of obligated material recovery facilities (MRFs) supplying quarterly details of their activities is still not improving, three reporting periods into the regulations requiring them to do so.

A group investigating the opportunities and challenges of creating more consistency in kerbside collection is to present recommendations to Defra later this month.

Industry bodies from the waste and resource management sector have called on the European Commission to consider pull mechanisms to stimulate demand for recycled materials in the upcoming Circular Economy Package.

Following the publication of Quarter 3 data showing a drop in recycling figures from last year, plastic recycling organisation RECOUP has called for changes to the PRN system.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including the Welsh recycling rate, cardboard at Lord’s and a Reconomy acquisition.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including the Environment Agency’s new CEO, Brighton Fashion Week and a new structure for Smurfit Kappa.

Broxbourne Borough Council will begin to roll out a new recycling system next week that introduces more separated materials after abandoning plans for a fully co-mingled system due to cost.