The ‘Circularety’ platform, developed by ecosurety, gives packaging producers the chance to invest their obligated payments in specific recycling projects.

Packaging compliance scheme Valpak has become the latest funding partner in the MetalMatters programme, a scheme to help councils boost the capture rates for metal packaging in kerbside recycling.

Philip Morton is to retire as CEO of compliance scheme REPIC at the end of the year, with former Viridor COO Mark Burrows-Smith taking his place.

Two more councils, Powys and Slough, are to turn to in-house waste services after reviews found that council-run operations offer significant savings.

Scotland has edged closer to overtaking England’s recycling performance, after official statistics recorded a recycling rate of 44.3 per cent for 2015.

German dissension over recycling targets and methodology could risk further delay to the adoption of the Circular Economy Package.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a new head of the Wood Recyclers Association, plastic recycling at Fusion Festival and recycling rewards for a children's heart charity.

The British public are frustrated at the lack of consistency and transparency surrounding recycling in the UK, and almost a quarter don’t trust councils to recycle their collections properly, a new national survey has found.

Assets from PlasRecycle’s plastic film reprocessing plant will be auctioned off after administrators failed to secure a buyer despite ‘strong interest’.

A new report from the Welsh Government has found that enhancing recycling in Wales could potentially save 86,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent.