A new campaign has been launched by Bristol Waste Company to encourage Bristol residents to put food waste into their designated food waste bin and reduce the amount of food they throw out.

The arc21 residual waste project is an ‘essential’ part of Northern Ireland’s waste management plans, according to a report by consultancy Grant Thornton.

Government ministers have criticised ‘excessively tight’ restrictions at HWRCs following their re-opening in a letter to local authorities, sparking disappointment over the letter’s ‘tone’ from local authority associations.

Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has launched a consultation on the future of recycling in the country as it seeks to reach a 65 per cent recycling rate by 2035.

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has urged the government to accelerate the transition to a circular economy as part of a Covid-19 recovery plan that prioritises the climate crisis, reiterating its call for a ban on biodegradable waste to landfill by 2025.

A new study by Material Focus reveals UK households could have made £17 billion from second hand resale value of the old small electricals lying around their home – around £620 per household.

Planning permission is in place for a five-storey ‘living wall’ made from recycled drinks cans on the banks of London’s River Thames.

The Local Authority Recycling Authority (LARAC) has cancelled its conference, due to be held in Birmingham in October, in light of Covid-19 safety concerns and will instead explore opportunities to go online.

Residual and recycling collection services have been experiencing increases in disruption for the past three weeks and commercial collections remain significantly disrupted, according to the latest Covid-19 local authority (LA) impacts survey.

Waste management company Viridor has re-won the contract to process Ealing Council’s dry mixed recycling, worth £10 million.