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.

A new survey from Keep Britain Tidy has found that litter is associated with increases in poverty, crime, and social disorder.

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.

The European Commission faces opposition from the UK as final negotiations regarding plastic bag reduction targets draw near.

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

Stakeholders are being asked to respond to a consultation on changes to the waste classification and assessment guidance.