Waste industry members write to the European Environment Commissioner to urge him to reconsider his review of the circular economy package.

A round-up of short news stories from the waste and resources industry, including SARIA, Every Can Counts, and Make Noise.

Resource checks in with PlasRecycle to see how the UK’s first facility for reprocessing post-consumer polythene bags is getting on

Recycling company TerraCycle has launched a new recycling programme for air and homecare products.

Metal packaging recycling campaign MetalMatters is being launched in Greater Manchester and Rhondaa Cynon Taf.

Novelis will convert all of its beverage can body sheet production to its high-recycled content sheet, evercan™, ‘by the end of 2017’.

Welsh recycling rates rise by two per cent, with the country recycling, reusing, or composting 54.3 per cent in 2013/14.

Natural Resources Wales has opened a consultation on Clean Power (UK) Limited’s application to operate a pyrolysis plant in Carmarthenshire.

The owner of car breaking company JT Recovery Services has been handed a suspended 10-month prison sentence for running an illegal waste site.

The London Waste and Recycling Board is calling on those wishing to build waste projects in London to apply to its £20-million infrastructure fund.