‘Something must change’ to combat England’s ‘disappointing’ recycling rates and meet EU targets, warns WRAP CEO

Wales’s Natural Resources Minister allocates £2.2 million to help communities clear litter and ‘tidy’ their towns.

A round- up of news from the resources sector, including Shanks, Biffa and Portsmouth and North Lincolnshire councils.

Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council is set to introduce three-weekly residual waste collections and move to a kerbside-sort recycling service.

England’s recycling rate has almost completely stalled, rising just 0.1 per cent between the calendar years of 2012 and 2013.

The East Lothian town of Dunbar has been chosen as Scotland's first ‘Zero Waste Town’ in a new pilot project.

Plymouth City Council is to undertake a ‘major reorganisation’ of household waste and recycling rounds in January 2015.

Local authority recycling services in England and Wales produced more carbon dioxide in 2012/13 than they did the year before.

Biogen’s anaerobic digestion plant in Waen begins operations, making it the ‘largest’ facility of its kind in Wales.

Lancashire County Council and Blackpool Borough Council take over ownership of Global Renewables waste PFI contract.