Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council is to reintroduce rear-lane recycling collections to 19 areas from January, after protests about the implementation of a new waste collection system.

A family has avoided injury but was left homeless after a fire at a County Down recycling centre spread to their house last night.

Waste management company Veolia has been fined £450,000 after a worker was seriously injured by a falling stack of baled waste at one of its materials recovery facilities.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Every Can Counts, BMRA’s new Chief Executive and Christmas leftovers.

Biffa Municipal has secured a six-year extension to its municipal services contract with Forest of Dean District Council worth £18 million.

Hospitality organisations that have signed up to the Hospitality and Food Service Agreement reduced CO2e emissions by 3.6 per cent between 2012 and 2014, according to the initiative’s second annual progress report.

Local authority (LA) collection of aluminium foil and aerosols has grown steadily in recent years, according to new data released by Alupro.

Bridgend County Borough Council is considering taking up monthly residual waste collections in a bid to boost its recycling rate.

Around 420,000 tonnes of beverage cartons were recycled in 2014, representing a recycling rate of 43 per cent in Europe.

The UK’s total household waste recycling rate rose to 44.9 per cent in 2014, up from 44.1 per cent in 2013, according to official statistics released today (15 December) by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.