The years of healthy improvement in recycling rates in all quarters of the UK appear to be over. Analysis of local authorities’ waste management performance in 2014/15 suggests a mixed picture. Charles Newman does the rounds

Shanks Group plc has sold almost half of its equity in its £750-million PFI contract with Wakefield Council.

Fife is the first council in Britain to ‘go monthly’ when it comes to waste collection (at least for a very small selection of its residents). Resource finds out how it’s going

Waste treatment company Clean Power Properties has suffered two setbacks to proposed waste gasification and pyrolysis developments in Corby and Carmarthenshire in the past week.

The Somerset Waste Partnership is considering introducing a three-weekly residual waste collection as part of its upcoming business plan.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a change at the top of the EAC, a new WISH website and Environment Agency landfill training.

A new paper released by Viridor states that the waste management system is ‘no longer fit for purpose’ and encourages the adoption of an aggregated services model.

The amount of household waste sent to landfill in Northern Ireland has dropped below 100,000 tonnes despite an increase in the total waste collected and a slight drop in recycling.

Cannock Chase District Council has removed food waste collection from its recycling system, instead asking residents to include it with residual waste.

Company director fined after a number of conditions were breached covering odour, dust and site drainage, affecting local residents of Woods Recycling Services, Ampthill