A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a new solid recovered fuel facility, a food waste recycling scheme and deliberately contaminated collections.

Waste management companies and councils must establish appropriate models to share the risk of volatile markets, says a new report published by Resources & Waste UK.

Recycling company Knowaste has submitted plans to develop a new absorbent hygiene product plant in West London following the 2011 closure of its first UK facility in the West Midlands.

The Dorset Waste Partnership has approved proposals to charge for non-household waste at household waste recycling centres in a bid to address its overspend.

The Welsh Natural Resources Minister has launched a £2-million Welsh Government investment in a new kerbside-sort system that aims to improve recycling performance in the Merthyr Tydfil.

Guidance has been published to help operators of materials recycling facilities comply with upcoming regulations introduced by the Scottish Government.

British recycling is being held back by its ‘peculiar’ aversion to separate recycling collections, according to EU policy advisor Karl Falkenberg.

Less frequent collection of dry recyclables and residual waste is one way to revive England’s sagging recycling rate, according to a new report released by SUEZ today.

European recycling of glass packaging rose to an all-time high in 2013, while PET packaging overcame market issues to increase its rate in 2014, according to two new sets of data.

Salford City Council has taken steps to ensure that food waste bags provided free to residents cannot be stolen, after former bin man Paul Strickland was sentenced last week.