The Polymark Consortium has developed a prototype chemical marker that can be added to food-contact PET and improve its sorting from mixed waste streams, according to an interim project report.

Cheltenham Council has reinstated weekly bin collections in some areas after residents complained about the overspill of waste.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has pulled the final round of its Innovation in Waste Prevention Fund for England, due to a lack of likely ‘new to the world’ ideas.

The London Borough of Hounslow has become the latest local authority to take control of its waste services after it agreed to bring waste and recycling collection in house from November 2016.

The UK has a residual waste treatment capacity gap of 15 million tonnes per year, and this will never disappear despite contrary reports, says a study released by Biffa.

Fife Council has become the first local authority in Great Britain to introduce once-a-month bin collections, after beginning a nine-month trial in the town of Glenrothes this week.

Fourteen people have been arrested across the North East as part of an investigation into a £78-million landfill tax fraud.

Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is to bring its kerbside collection system in house, while also simplifying what is currently considered the ‘most complicated’ service in the UK.

Sainsbury’s has launched a five-year plan to target food waste starting with a search for a ‘trial town’ in which to pilot initiatives.

The operational assets of a landfill waste recycling centre will be sold in an online auction after a High Court judgment on debt owed by its owners.