Dacorum Borough Council has awarded Viridor with a contract to sort recyclable materials from its new co-mingling service.

With increasing recognition that recycling is about more than tonnages, Eunomia is focusing on carbon impacts with its second Carbon Index (accompanying this issue of Resource). Life Cycle Assessment Specialist Simon Hann explains

Carrier Bag Levy statistics for Northern Ireland show that the charge has reduced carrier bag use by 71.8 per cent.

Sixty per cent of Banbridge District Council residents are to receive monthly residual waste collections.

Residents in the Wigtownshire area of Dumfries and Galloway can now recycle food waste every week.

Waste and recycling operatives in West Norfolk may strike over a pay and work dispute with Kier Refuse Services.

Welsh councils recycled, reused and composted 54 per cent in the first three months of the year, up three per cent on the same period in 2013.

Flat managers in Oxford may be penalised if they fail to provide ‘at least’ the same number of recycling bins as waste bins.

A smartphone application that allows council officers to log, photograph and plot flytipping spots has been launched.

Lichfield District Council and Tamworth Borough Council stop accepting food waste in organics bins due to costs.