A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a new Novelis plant, recycling benefitting London Zoo and a new glass recycling contract in Scotland.

Circular business models for refurbished hospital equipment are to be explored in a six-month project run by Axion Consulting and Philips.

The paint industry is calling on government to boost support for remanufactured paint and for household waste recycling centres to accept leftover household paint as part of a drive to increase its redistribution.

Pledge 4 Plastics, the national recycling campaign trying to increase the collection of plastic packaging for recycling, has released a video emphasising the potential of recycled plastics.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including FoodCycle’s Breadline Challenge, meat in cardboard bins and a profit warning for Sims.

CIWM has criticised Defra’s responses to the European Commission’s Circular Economy Package consultation, saying they highlight ‘Whitehall’s ambivalent attitude to green growth’.

Waste management company Shanks Group plc is set to pay £5 million in extra costs after a four-month delay to its £750-million South Kirkby waste plant.

The number of obligated material recovery facilities (MRFs) supplying quarterly details of their activities is still not improving, three reporting periods into the regulations requiring them to do so.

Defra has today published the UK government’s response to three consultations relating to the European Commission’s Circular Economy Package.

Taxes on incineration would be more effective in diverting resources towards the top of the waste hierarchy than landfill bans, according to Zero Waste Europe (ZWE).