An initiative to provide people across the UK with a way to recycle cigarette butts and other smoking waste has been launched by recycling company TerraCycle today.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a new community reuse hub, Taylor's new bin reward scheme and a skull found in a HWRC.

The second set of quarterly reporting data from material recovery facilities since new obligations were introduced has been published, but almost half of the eligible facilities have not reported data.

The Waste & Resources Action Programme’s (WRAP) Recycle Now campaign has launched a suite of communications materials to help councils, brands and retailers allay consumer confusion on how to recycle different types of plastic.

The Polymark Consortium has developed a prototype chemical marker that can be added to food-contact PET and improve its sorting from mixed waste streams, according to an interim project report.

Cheltenham Council has reinstated weekly bin collections in some areas after residents complained about the overspill of waste.

The London Borough of Hounslow has become the latest local authority to take control of its waste services after it agreed to bring waste and recycling collection in house from November 2016.

Fife Council has become the first local authority in Great Britain to introduce once-a-month bin collections, after beginning a nine-month trial in the town of Glenrothes this week.

Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is to bring its kerbside collection system in house, while also simplifying what is currently considered the ‘most complicated’ service in the UK.

The operational assets of a landfill waste recycling centre will be sold in an online auction after a High Court judgment on debt owed by its owners.