Cardiff Council has urged residents to continue to separate recyclables at the kerbside despite announcing it had taken the “temporary measure” to send recyclables for incineration during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Waste management company Viridor will host a virtual exhibition this week consulting the local community on its plans to build a plastics reprocessing plant in Dunbar, Scotland.

A poll by SUEZ recycling and recovery UK during a webinar has found that no local authority representatives found a trip to a Household Waste and Recycling Centre (HWRC) an ‘essential trip’ for householders during the Covid-19 pandemic.

SUEZ recycling and recovery UK has released a document on the necessary conditions for the reopening of Household Waste and Recycling Centres (HWRCs) during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Veolia Waste Company has decided to produce its own sanitizer in order to protect its key workforce from Covid-19.

CIWM’s online WasteSupport platform which will match struggling local authorities with private contractors with spare capacity has gone live.

European Aluminium, an aluminium industry association, has launched its Circular Aluminium Action Plan, which aims to achieve a circular economy for aluminium by 2030.

The Environment Agency (EA) has released a regulatory position statement that allows municipal waste incinerators to accept Covid-19 infectious waste without varying their environmental permits.

The Waste Industry Safety and Health Forum (WISH) has updated its Covid-19 safety advice for the waste sector.

Environment Minister Rebecca Pow has thanked the waste sector for its efforts in maintaining “vital” waste services during the Covid-19 outbreak.