The waste electrical and electronic equipment distributor take back scheme is calling on local authorities to apply to its £700,000 fund to further reuse and recycling.

The BBC is to run a new, three-part series on waste next year, with campaigner and chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall presenting the programme.

A round-up of business news from the resource sector, including Recolight, FCC Environment, Viridor, and Remondis.

Nestlé and Unilever are amongst a number of companies working with the resource industry in a new project to ‘create a circular economy for flexible packaging’.

The Organics Recycling Group has published a best practice guide for the organics sector to improve the quality of composting feedstock.

Recycling half of the items littered in England would have an economic value of at least £14.8 million, finds Keep Britain Tidy report.

Signatories of the Hospitality and Food Service Agreement have saved more than £10 million by reducing food waste in one year, finds WRAP.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources industry, including REPIC, WRAP Cymru, and Casepak.

Local authorities in Wales reach their highest reuse, recycling and composting level yet – achieving 58 per cent between April and June 2014.

Local authorities in Northern Ireland sent less than half of municipal waste to landfill in the last financial year, a record low for the country.