A round up of business news from the waste and resource sector, including the Resource Association, ReFood, Helistrat, and Green Alliance.

Wheelabrator Technologies Inc. submits planning permission to build a 200,000 tonne incinerator in Deeside.

SITA UK has released an interactive digital map illustrating UK local authority recycling rates, in a bid to encourage residents to ‘engage’ more with recycling.

Local authority-owned waste management company Ubico will take over waste collections in Tewkesbury once the council buys into the company next year.

A Waste Implementation Manager at B&Q has won a fully-funded place on the University of Northampton’s Resource Management course.

ADBA drops ‘biogas’ from its name to become the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association .

DS Smith has bought the Recycling Division of Middleton Paper for an undisclosed sum.

The first reporting period of the Materials Facility Regulations, which requires operators to sample incoming and outgoing streams, has begun today.

Dr Helmut Maurer from the EC Directorate General for Environment has suggested that resource policy should be kept separate from waste.

GMB members employed by Serco in Mid Sussex will go on strike on 14 October following a dispute over pay.