Sixty per cent of Banbridge District Council residents are to receive monthly residual waste collections.

Residents in the Wigtownshire area of Dumfries and Galloway can now recycle food waste every week.

A year after a Chinese lantern started a waste fire, a code of practice has been launched to ‘minimise risk’.

A round-up of news from the waste and sustainability sectors, including PyroPure, CIWM, Forum for the Future, and Powerday.

Welsh councils recycled, reused and composted 54 per cent in the first three months of the year, up three per cent on the same period in 2013.

Construction is due to begin on Resource Recovery Solutions’ Derby incinerator following an investment from GIB.

Flat managers in Oxford may be penalised if they fail to provide ‘at least’ the same number of recycling bins as waste bins.

Hamilton Waste and Recycling Ltd signs up to Zero Waste Scotland’s Resource Sector Commitment.

Lichfield District Council and Tamworth Borough Council stop accepting food waste in organics bins due to costs.

Carmarthenshire warns residents that they could face fines of up to £1,000 if they fail to present their waste correctly.