Up to 80 firefighters were sent to Recycle Force’s waste facility in Corby over the weekend to stem a large blaze at its recycling storage warehouse.

A round-up of waste and resources news, including a food waste Visionary, litter action, and whales swimming in plastic bottles.

Data measuring the input and output of material recovery facilities across England and Wales has been published for the first time today by WRAP.

European investment body AURELIUS Group has followed up its acquisition of plastics company ECO Plastics by purchasing Regain Polymers Holdings from Chamonix Private Equity.

Torridge District Council will resume recycling services to its 31,500 households on Monday, two weeks after its collections contractor entered administratoin.

Thurrock Council will remove residents’ recycling bins if they are repeatedly contaminated, as part of a new ‘three strikes and you’re out’ policy.

New WRAP report finds local authorities paid a median fee of £6 for every tonne of waste sent to material recovery facilities in 2014/15, but that some councils pay MRFs to take material, while others are paid for it.

Afzal Majid, Director of plastic bottle recycling company Euro Closed Loop Recycling, has warned that the company is ‘on the brink of closure’, just weeks after it was bought.

Residents across Bath and North East Somerset are being warned that they may experience irregular waste collections over the next few days after waste collection vehicles overheat.

The European Plastics Converters trade association has established the Polymers for Europe Alliance to address the supply issue that is reportedly threatening companies with bankruptcy.