EXCLUSIVE: The founder and former Deputy Chairman of ECOPlastics Recycling, Jonathan Short, has set up a new plastics reprocessing venture, Plastics Reclamation Limited.

Ray Georgeson considers whether all the new waste regulations and policies mean we are suffering from separation anxiety

With election manifestos beginning to surface, remind yourself what the various parties said about the environment back in the pure, uncomplicated days of 2015.

Recycling firm Street Fuel Limited has been fined £5,000 after a worker sustained arm injuries whilst operating a baler machine.

Chancellor George Osborne stated in his Budget 2015 speech that “we are all part of one United Kingdom”. However, approaches to waste and recycling across the different governments are becoming increasingly fractured. Resource reports

England and Wales now have the same legal requirement for local authorities to separately collect certain dry recyclables – but uptake of separate collections in the two countries has been vastly different. Annie Kane finds out why

After reviewing the separate sort vs. co-mingled debate [http://resource.co/article/going-separate-ways-10089], Annie Kane takes a look at a local authority that has chosen to undertake co-mingled collections, and the reasons for doing so

Isonomia’s Peter Jones does battle with Daily Mail misinformation, and presents a call to arms against pre-election attacks on recycling

Despite stutters in recycling figures, Eunomia’s third Local Authority Recycling Carbon Index (included with this issue of Resource), shows the carbon figures associated with household collection are improving. Simon Hann has more

Friends of the Earth Europe, part of the world’s largest environmental network, represents 31 national organisations and thousands of local groups at European level. Libby Peake caught up with its Resource Use Campaigner, Ariadna Rodrigo