A scrutiny report into the roll out of Dorset Waste Partnership’s county-wide ‘Recycle for Dorset’ scheme has found that no major problems persist with the service.

SUEZ environnement’s £180-million incinerator in Great Blakenham, Suffolk, has been officially opened by the Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk, Clare, Countess of Euston.

AmeyCespa will be awarded a 25-year contract to manage waste on the Isle of Wight following a vote by the council’s Executive Committee this week.

Community action group GlosVAIN has announced plans for a resource recovery centre to rival the county council’s controversial energy-from-waste plant.

The MetalMatters campaign has delivered a ‘positive and lasting’ effect on metal recovery from kerbside collections says a report by organisers Alupro.

Torridge District Council will resume recycling services to its 31,500 households on Monday, two weeks after its collections contractor entered administratoin.

Thurrock Council will remove residents’ recycling bins if they are repeatedly contaminated, as part of a new ‘three strikes and you’re out’ policy.

Around 75 firefighters are tackling a fire involving 4,000 bales of mixed household waste and shredded carpets at MID UK Recycling’s waste site in Ancaster, Lincolnshire.

New WRAP report finds local authorities paid a median fee of £6 for every tonne of waste sent to material recovery facilities in 2014/15, but that some councils pay MRFs to take material, while others are paid for it.

A round-up of waste and resources news, including an award-winning bike renovation scheme and a consultation on a new weekly recycling service in Rochdale.