The UK public is more satisfied with their local waste and recycling collections than any other council service, according to a survey published by APSE.

Switching to source-separated collections could save Welsh councils over a million pounds a year, according to research carried out by WRAP Cymru.

Consultancy Eunomia will investigate potential ways to accelerate a circular economy across the European furniture industry in a project commissioned by the European Environmental Bureau.

A round up of news from the waste and resources sector including funding for community projects in Northern Ireland, ethical business accreditation to a UK mattress company, a charity Christmas jumper swap, and more.

A Welsh hospital group is trialling an innovative recycling process of sterilisation wrap, diverting tonnes of medical waste from incineration every month.

Tesco has rolled out a new crowdfunding platform, BackIt, to help small businesses and entrepreneurs gain funding for their food waste-reducing ideas.

Composite materials like fibreglass are strong, durable and light. The trouble is, they’re not very easy to handle at their end of life.

Costa Coffee is launching a nationwide recycling scheme to recover and recycle more of its takeaway cups, but only those that have been left in stores.

Bristol City Council has launched a campaign in a bid to make Bristol measurably cleaner by 2020, in partnership with its arms-length Bristol Waste Company.

Europe has reached a ‘turning point’ in the ‘absurd unethical and anti-economic situation’ of food waste, according to Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis.