Environment Secretary Liz Truss vowed to ‘crack down on waste cowboys’, while Resources Minister Rory Stewart has called for more consistency in collections.

Plans to introduce a pay-as-you-throw waste collection system in Guernsey by mid-2016 have been delayed until 2017.

A new anaerobic digestion plant for the Tomorrow’s Valley project local authorities in South Wales was opened by Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant yesterday.

Broxbourne Borough Council will begin to roll out a new recycling system next week that introduces more separated materials after abandoning plans for a fully co-mingled system due to cost.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a new community reuse hub, Taylor's new bin reward scheme and a skull found in a HWRC.

Cheltenham Council has reinstated weekly bin collections in some areas after residents complained about the overspill of waste.

The London Borough of Hounslow has become the latest local authority to take control of its waste services after it agreed to bring waste and recycling collection in house from November 2016.

Fife Council has become the first local authority in Great Britain to introduce once-a-month bin collections, after beginning a nine-month trial in the town of Glenrothes this week.

Cardiff Council’s new wheelie bin rollout has cost £1.1 million less than budgeted.

Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is to bring its kerbside collection system in house, while also simplifying what is currently considered the ‘most complicated’ service in the UK.