Around 75 firefighters are tackling a fire involving 4,000 bales of mixed household waste and shredded carpets at MID UK Recycling’s waste site in Ancaster, Lincolnshire.

New WRAP report finds local authorities paid a median fee of £6 for every tonne of waste sent to material recovery facilities in 2014/15, but that some councils pay MRFs to take material, while others are paid for it.

A round-up of waste and resources news, including an award-winning bike renovation scheme and a consultation on a new weekly recycling service in Rochdale.

Residents across Bath and North East Somerset are being warned that they may experience irregular waste collections over the next few days after waste collection vehicles overheat.

Somerset residents have been warned that waste and recycling collections may be disrupted following a surface fire at Viridor’s Dimmer Landfill Restoration site.

Rochdale council agrees to switch from alternate weekly collections of residual waste and recycling to three-weekly collections, in a bid to increase recycling and save money.

A group of councils has written an open letter to central government calling for the standardisation of reporting of process losses from composting and mechanical biological treatment facilities.

Waste and by-products from fish, beer, and whisky businesses could boost the Scottish economy by up to £800 million a year if better utilised, finds Zero Waste Scotland.

The Welsh Government has awarded WRAP Cymru £9 million of grant funding, as part of a £22-million funding pot from the Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate.

Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister Mark H Durkan says he is ‘considering’ introducing a money-back system on drinks bottles to improve recycling.