Bath and North East Somerset Council is calling on members of the public to join its collection crews on a temporary basis as it seeks to resolve a recycling backlog caused by strike action among its staff.

Falkirk Council, one of the local authorities carrying out three-weekly residual waste collections, is to take the processing of recyclable material from kerbside collections in-house in an attempt to cut down on ‘unsustainable’ gate fees.

Recycling in flats will be targeted in a new waste strategy in Barnet after a draft strategy was agreed at a meeting of Barnet Council’s Environment Committee on Monday.

A new waste incinerator on former dockyard land in Plymouth is now fully operational after a €250-million building project.

A builder has been fined £800 after dumping 250 tonnes of soil contaminated with waste onto council land in Salford, which the council estimates will cost £97,000 to clear.

‘Bin it for Good’, a three-month anti-litter pilot scheme in the main shopping areas of Birmingham city centre, has reportedly reduced litter by half.

Luton Borough Council is considering implementing a compulsory recycling system that would see officers visit and potentially fine residents who fail to recycle their household waste.

Andrew Bird, Chair of the Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC), considers whether harmonisation in recycling collections is really the way forward.

Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council is to reintroduce rear-lane recycling collections to 19 areas from January, after protests about the implementation of a new waste collection system.

A third of London’s buses will be running on cleaner-burning diesel made in part from waste fats and oils by March, after two operators signed deals with biodiesel producer Argent Energy.