Recycling information on packaging is to be trimmed to make it simpler for consumers to understand and easier for retailers to use, the On-Pack Recycling Label scheme has announced.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including jail for a London fly-tipper, executive movements at WRAP, Recycle Week 2017 and Blue Peter going green.

Peterborough City Council is considering ending its waste contract with Amey 17 years early – the second authority looking at early termination of a long-term contract in the last couple of weeks.

The UK’s most heavily-concentrated area of offices is to be targeted for Hubbub’s Square Mile Challenge, providing specialist bins to boost the recycling of takeaway coffee cups.

Council leaders in Sheffield have voted to rip up the city’s waste management contract with Veolia 19 years early and reprocure its services in an attempt to secure a ‘new and improved’ arrangement.

Four of the UK’s largest supermarkets have had their say on actions needed to cut food waste, including transparency, targets, redistribution and labelling.

A share of £115,000 is up for grabs to help make the Merseyside and Halton region a cleaner and greener place through community projects.

RCVs in Thurrock and York are to be fitted with new software to look for potential potholes during their rounds in a new government-backed trial.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector including Alupro's professional cycling sponsorship, the Princess takes to the Battlefield and a HWRC contract in Devon.

Fly-tippers in Wales could be subject to on-the-spot fixed-penalty notices of up to £400, after the government proposed new, quicker punishments to ward off waste criminals.