Rochdale Borough Council has finalised plans to change to three-weekly collections of recycling and residual waste after only 295 residents responded to a consultation.

The Waste & Resources Action Programme has highlighted a need for a ‘whole-systems’ vision for the EU’s upcoming Circular Economy Package, as well as a focus on food waste and innovative business models.

Just 35 per cent of WEEE disposed of in Europe in 2012 was collected and recycled by regulated processors, a two-year study funded by the European Union has found.

Natural Resources Wales is closely monitoring a fire at a recycling plant in the Vale of Glamorgan, which is still burning after starting on Sunday.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including an Environment Agency investigation, a waste survey and biofuel takeover.

Supermarkets in France have agreed to a voluntary commitment to redistribute unsold food stocks, after measures were dropped from a law for ‘procedural’ reasons.

Use of single-use carrier bags in Northern Ireland has risen by 8.2 per cent from the figure recorded for the first year after introducing a carrier bag levy, according to Department of the Environment statistics.

Alupro has announced revisions to the protocol applied to aluminium packaging recovered from incinerator bottom ash, following approval from Defra and the Environment Agencies.

Local authorities and businesses from Essex, Suffolk and Kent have joined together to fight litter and attempt to reform littering offenders.

In the 11 months since Cornwall Council introduced charges for certain items at household waste recycling facilities, fly-tipping of those items has more than doubled, council figures show.