A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a charity recycling scheme in Northern Ireland, new waste-derived fuels and work on a landfill nature reserve.

A £70-million incinerator planned for Nottinghamshire has been given the go-ahead following delays caused by concerns over the experimental technology used in the facility.

National anti-litter charity Keep Britain Tidy says that England should ‘hang its head in shame’, after Wales announced this week [http://resource.co/article/wales-eclipses-national-recycling-target-11138] that its recycling rate had reached 59 per cent.

The Welsh recycling rate for local authority collected municipal waste rose to 59 per cent for the 12 months to December 2015, meeting its target of 58 per cent for the end of the 2015/16 financial year.

Veolia has been named as the preferred bidder for an eight-year contract to deliver harmonised waste collection and street cleansing across four boroughs in South London.

The median cost of sending waste to MRFs has increased by 316 per cent in the past year, according to the WRAP.

Local authority body LARAC has criticised REA and ESA reports into the future of the resources industry and says that more collaboration is needed to take the sector forward.

Carl Sargeant, the former Welsh Minister for Natural Resources, has been moved to a ministerial role with the Department of Communities and Children in a reshuffle of the Welsh Government.

Fife Council has become the first British local authority to use dual-fuel bin lorries after taking delivery of two converted vehicles.

Viridor has signed a £700 million contract with the Clyde Valley Residual Waste Project, the first shared services contract for Scottish Councils, to divert the waste of five local authorities from landfill.