Twenty-four waste and recycling officers have been awarded placements on the Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee’s Scholarship Programme.

The City of London Corporation has launched its annual campaign to reduce chewing gum litter in the Square Mile.

Preston City Council is considering withdrawing its separate food waste collection service from next year to save money.

Rochford District Council has agreed to extend its waste collection and street cleansing contract with SITA UK by another seven years.

A round up of news from the waste and recycling industry, including FCC Environment, Agrivert, Alpha Resource Management and R4R conference.

Ten waste advisors in North Somerset Council have helped to boost the area’s recycling rate to 60 per cent, it has been announced.

An inquiry into Defra’s handling of three PFI waste projects has found that the government department ‘failed to exercise good judgement’.

Government has ‘no current plans’ to make green waste collections mandatory, says Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles.

South Lanarkshire Council is to bring its recycling service to 10,000 flats in the hopes of boosting recycling rates.

To move towards a more circular economy for biowaste, the full value chain of biowastes and biotreatments needs to be recognised, says the ESA.