Switching to source-separated collections could save Welsh councils over a million pounds a year, according to research carried out by WRAP Cymru.

EAC Chair Mary Creagh and four other politicians are to test the Winnow food waste smart meter in their homes as part of the ongoing Sainsbury’s Waste less, Save more initiative.

Tesco and Sainsbury’s, two of the UK’s largest supermarkets, have pledged to ban plastic cotton buds and will replace plastic stems with paper in their own brand products by the end of 2017.

A new report by Eunomia Research & Consulting suggests that investment in advanced conversion technologies (ACTs) may still be beneficial, despite the technology’s mixed track record.

A new bill detailing plans to devolve the landfill disposals tax to Wales from April 2018 is due to be laid out before the Welsh National Assembly.

The new Chairman of the Environmental Services Association, a trade association representing the UK’s resource and waste management industry, outlined his priorities for the association at its annual lunch for members and stakeholders.

A round up of news from the waste and resources sector including new bins for Croydon, global growth in the AD industry, investment in the European paper industry and more.

New research by Zero Waste Scotland has revealed that nearly 1.35 million tonnes of food and drink was wasted in Scotland in 2013, a figure that will be used as a baseline for efforts to reduce food waste by a third by 2025.

How can risk-averse councils get the most value out of the recyclables they collect and feed them into a more circular economy? An idea finding favour in Wales and Scotland is a materials brokerage service.

There was no word on waste in Philip Hammond’s first, and last, Autumn Statement, despite calls for the Treasury to take a long-term view of sustainability.