New figures reveal that the amount of commercial food waste composted in Scotland rose by 1800 per cent between 2012 and 2013.

The National Assembly for Wales’s Environment and Sustainability Committee has published its findings on the state of recycling in Wales.

Dundee City Council and Angus Council are jointly tendering for a 20-year residual waste contract.

The Welsh Government has published statutory guidance on the separate collection of waste paper, metal, plastic and glass.

Around a quarter of UK householders are ‘highly effective’ recyclers but the majority are still confused over what can and cannot be recycled, a new WRAP report has found.

Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland issues a warning to the waste and recycling industry following ‘concerns about continuing poor health and safety practices’.

The proportion of UK local authorities offering kerbside carton collection has reached 60 per cent, finds ACE UK.

Wakefield Council is to move to co-mingled recycling collections in 2015, after internal TEEP test finds separate collections to be neither economically nor environmentally practicable.

A round-up of business news from the resource sector, including Recolight, FCC Environment, Viridor, and Remondis.

FCC Medio Ambiente SA has been chosen as the preferred bidder for Edinburgh and Midlothian councils’ residual waste contract.