The recycling rate of rigid metal packaging across Europe reached a new record of 74.7 per cent in 2013, according to Metal Packaging Europe.

Environmental groups have called for the next Mayor of London to harmonise the 20 different recycling systems across London as part of its Greener London movement.

Marcus Gover, Director at WRAP, shares his vision of an England where householders know exactly what goes ‘in’ recycling bins and what stays ‘out’.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a merger for the owner of Dennis Eagle, an app helping Derry residents to recycle, a WEEE collection event and this year's RECOUP Conference.

A project designed to identify new luminescent inks capable of increasing automated sorting efficiency has been awarded £772,000.

A switch to four-weekly collections will not go ahead in the North Wales county of Conwy after its council’s cabinet voted against the proposal, calling monthly collection ‘a bridge too far’.

Scottish Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead has pledged to cut food waste in Scotland by a third by 2025, as part of Scotland’s new circular economy strategy, ‘Making Things Last’.

More than 250 jobs are set to be lost in a ‘major transformation’ of Lancashire County’s Council’s waste operations that will see two six-year-old sites run by Global Renewables mothballed.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a food waste communications trial, a Veolia employment project and the removal of street bins in Dorset to encourage recycling.

Scouting groups across England and Wales have been challenged to put their ‘recycling skills to the test’ as they compete against each other to recycle the most household packaging.