A round-up of news from the waste and resource industry, including Bryson Recycling, CDEnviro, and CEPI.

The Teesside Construction Committee is to protest on Saturday (18 April) over perceived discrimination against local workers by SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT.

The Liberal Democrats would set a 70 per cent recycling target for England, and introduce an incineration tax, if they were voted into power.

Wakefield Council has postponed its new co-mingling service until summer, following delays to the delivery of equipment needed for the new service.

Water found in abandoned coal mines has been identified as a 'new' source of renewable energy, following a two year study by Nottingham Trent University.

The Conservative Party makes no mention of waste, resource or sustainability policy in its new manifesto, despite claiming to have been the ‘greenest government ever’.

The Green Party has released its election manifesto for 2015, outlining that it would spend an extra £4 billion a year on recycling to ‘do away with damaging incineration and landfill’.

Biffa’s Chief Executive Ian Wakelin has suggested that the company may start a ‘small international business’ in the next two years and branch into energy-from-waste plants in the UK.

Viridor’s landfill in Ardley, Oxfordshire, has stopped accepting non-hazardous waste for disposal, while its Wangford site in Suffolk has closed all together.

East Lothian Council is to introduce a new food waste service and switch from weekly to fortnightly waste collections in a bid to raise recycling rates.