Ray Georgeson delivered the third annual Kit Strange Memorial Lecture at the Houses of Parliament at the start of the year, reflecting on the past, present and future of the industry.

Hannah Boxall looks at infrastructure services company FM Conway to find out how it is building up its recycling portfolio.

Resource checks in on one of the first local authorities to embrace the Welsh Government’s Collections Blueprint model, Conwy.

Euro Closed Loop Recycling has been placed into administration just a year after its predecessor Closed Loop was rescued in a pre-pack administration agreement.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a new bio-bean product, Veolia’s latest EfW development and the ‘Endless Lives of Glass’.

A report into Defra’s Reward and Recognition Fund has found that many of the projects funded did not provide good ‘value for money’.

Mal Williams remembers Mike Croxford, a pioneer of both kerbside sort and community recycling and former head of Newport Wastesavers, who passed away this May.

Wrexham Council is to roll out a new recycling system featuring stackable ‘Wheelie Boxes’ next week in an effort to simplify the recycling scheme, increase recycling rates and improve efficiency.

The ESA has recommended a new system of producer responsibility that transfers resource ownership from local authorities to product supply chains, which it says will improve the quality, recyclability and use of recycled content.

Recycle Now is using street magic to demonstrate how recycling metal and glass packaging items can be transformed into new containers.