A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including FoodCycle’s Breadline Challenge, meat in cardboard bins and a profit warning for Sims.

CIWM has criticised Defra’s responses to the European Commission’s Circular Economy Package consultation, saying they highlight ‘Whitehall’s ambivalent attitude to green growth’.

Waste management company Shanks Group plc is set to pay £5 million in extra costs after a four-month delay to its £750-million South Kirkby waste plant.

A fire that broke out at a recycling plant in Londonderry just hours after it was sold is likely to burn for several more days, the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service has said.

Gloucestershire County Council is to pay a further £17 million of public money to Urbaser Balfour Beatty to hasten construction to the controversial Javelin Park incinerator near Stroud.

The number of obligated material recovery facilities (MRFs) supplying quarterly details of their activities is still not improving, three reporting periods into the regulations requiring them to do so.

Defra has today published the UK government’s response to three consultations relating to the European Commission’s Circular Economy Package.

A group investigating the opportunities and challenges of creating more consistency in kerbside collection is to present recommendations to Defra later this month.

Industry bodies from the waste and resource management sector have called on the European Commission to consider pull mechanisms to stimulate demand for recycled materials in the upcoming Circular Economy Package.

Recycle for London is asking Londoners to do ‘Just One Thing’ differently to boost recycling rates in the capital.