A round up of news from the waste and resources sector including a ReFood Christmas drive, waste contracts in Surrey and an appointment at ecosurety.

A Cardiff-based company, Thermal Compaction Group, is pioneering a new clinical waste recycling process at one of Wales’ oldest hospitals.

The UK public is more satisfied with their local waste and recycling collections than any other council service, according to a survey published by APSE.

Switching to source-separated collections could save Welsh councils over a million pounds a year, according to research carried out by WRAP Cymru.

Firefighters are this morning continuing to fight a fire at a hazardous waste facility operated by Remondis after it broke out on Sunday morning.

More than 50 firefighters and a dozen fire engines were called out to tackle a major fire at New Earth Solutions’s Gloucestershire recycling facility on Friday.

Sadiq Khan has launched a competition to find green business project ideas that could help tackle the capital’s environmental problems.

Bristol City Council has launched a campaign in a bid to make Bristol measurably cleaner by 2020, in partnership with its arms-length Bristol Waste Company.

In setting up the Bristol Waste Company, Bristol City Council is getting its recycling into ship-shape conditions.

New research by Zero Waste Scotland has revealed that nearly 1.35 million tonnes of food and drink was wasted in Scotland in 2013, a figure that will be used as a baseline for efforts to reduce food waste by a third by 2025.