A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a new bio-bean product, Veolia’s latest EfW development and the ‘Endless Lives of Glass’.

Wrexham Council is to roll out a new recycling system featuring stackable ‘Wheelie Boxes’ next week in an effort to simplify the recycling scheme, increase recycling rates and improve efficiency.

The ESA has recommended a new system of producer responsibility that transfers resource ownership from local authorities to product supply chains, which it says will improve the quality, recyclability and use of recycled content.

Recycle Now is using street magic to demonstrate how recycling metal and glass packaging items can be transformed into new containers.

Sadiq Khan, who was elected Mayor of London last week, has promised to make the capital ‘one of the world’s greenest cities’ through measures including ‘reinvigorating efforts to increase the amount London recycles’.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including investment at Ward Recycling, a reuse campaign in Devon and new fly-tipping FPNs.

A new documentary explores the concept of the circular economy and outlines the ‘significant business potential’ available for firms that adopt circular business models.

Ten per cent of Sainsbury’s annual national gas consumption is being provided by a partnership processing its own food waste, the supermarket says.

More than 30 businesses across New York City have pledged to divert at least half of their waste from landfill and incineration this year as part of the city’s Zero Waste Challenge.

Edinburgh’s new recycling service has been dubbed a ‘success’ by the council after the amount of waste recycled in the homes receiving the new service increased by 29 per cent in 2015/16.