Around a quarter of UK householders are ‘highly effective’ recyclers but the majority are still confused over what can and cannot be recycled, a new WRAP report has found.

Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland issues a warning to the waste and recycling industry following ‘concerns about continuing poor health and safety practices’.

The proportion of UK local authorities offering kerbside carton collection has reached 60 per cent, finds ACE UK.

Wakefield Council is to move to co-mingled recycling collections in 2015, after internal TEEP test finds separate collections to be neither economically nor environmentally practicable.

A round-up of business news from the resource sector, including Recolight, FCC Environment, Viridor, and Remondis.

FCC Medio Ambiente SA has been chosen as the preferred bidder for Edinburgh and Midlothian councils’ residual waste contract.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council warns it may have to make 500 people redundant and undertake a ‘wholesale evaluation’ of a range of services, including waste, to manage its budget.

SITA UK’s incinerator in Great Blakenham has begun exporting power to the National Grid.

The Organics Recycling Group has published a best practice guide for the organics sector to improve the quality of composting feedstock.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has held a conference looking at the extent of waste crime in Scotland, and how to tackle it.