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UK Central Government
England’s household recycling rate rises by 0.4 per cent

England’s ‘waste from households’ recycling rate has risen by 0.4 per cent to 45.5 per cent in 2019/20, falling short of the 50 per cent target reaffirmed in 2018 by Defra in the ‘Our waste, our resource: a strategy for England’.


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Food waste
UK Local Authority
ADBA calls for local authority funding for separate food waste collection

The Association warns funding must be made available now to make separate food waste collections possible nationwide by 2023

Welsh recycling bins
Devolved Governments
Welsh Government commits to future in ‘Beyond Recycling’ report

A new strategy unveiled by the Welsh Government aims to make the circular economy a reality in Wales

Paul Davidson
Addressing the plastics recycling challenge at UKRI
By Resource |
1 March 2021 |
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Paul Davidson, Challenge Director of Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), discusses ongoing projects and challenges brought about by mass consumer plastic packaging 
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MPs look to green sector for post-Covid recovery
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Patrick Jowett
| 17 February 2021 |
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The Environmental Audit Committee calls for green job creation and net-zero commitments to be put at the centre of the UK’s economic recovery
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MPs begin inquiry into future DRS
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Patrick Jowett
| 16 February 2021 |
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The Environmental Audit Committee has launched an inquiry into introducing deposit return schemes in England
Mobile recycling centre
Mobile centre brings recycling to rural residents
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Patrick Jowett
| 16 February 2021 |
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A look into Conwy County’s Mobile Recycling Centre, developed to support the move to four-weekly residual waste collections
Bins on street
Significant drop in normal food waste service collections
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Lidia Creech
| 12 February 2021 |
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The 17th ADEPT survey on impact of Covid-19 on waste services has found fewer local authorities are reporting normal operations this month than in September
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Lincolnshire Council seeks approval for HWRC at Tattershall
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Lidia Creech
| 11 February 2021 |
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The Council claims the new HWRC would ‘maintain the service in the Horncastle area and meet the requirements of the existing policy on HWRC provision’
EfW plant
Invest in new EfW facilities ‘only when needed’, says CEWEP
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Patrick Jowett
| 10 February 2021 |
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The CEWEP advises the need for new EfW facilities should depend on the amount of unavoidable non-recyclable waste that society produces
Overwood EfW
Viridor proposes new EfW plant in Scotland
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Fiona Binns
| 8 February 2021 |
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Viridor has put forward proposals for a multimillion-pound EfW facility in South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Food waste
Reading Borough Council rolls out food waste recycling
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Lidia Creech
| 5 February 2021 |
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The Council has begun separate food waste collections from residents from this week
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Stockport Council to tackle digital exclusion with device loan scheme
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Lidia Creech
| 3 February 2021 |
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The Council is partnering with organisations Digiknow Alliance, Renewal North West and Amshire IT Support to bring free digital devices to digitally excluded citizens
Garden waste
Defra to promote ‘high quality recycling’ in Waste Management Plan
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Lidia Creech
| 28 January 2021 |
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The Waste Management Plan for England evaluates how to support objectives of the Resources and Waste Strategy and the 25-Year Environment Bill and sets out measures for increasing recycling rates across England 
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Artificial intelligence-led MRF gains planning permission in the Midlands
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Fiona Binns
| 21 January 2021 |
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City planners have awarded planning permission to a regional recycling plant in Coventry that uses artificial intelligence to process recycling
Fire at waste plant
EA adds alternative measures in update to fire prevention guide
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Patrick Jowett
| 20 January 2021 |
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The Environment Agency has updated its fire prevention guide for waste fires to include successful case studies from site operators
Packaging industry calls for joined-up approach to waste policy
BPF roadmap calls for reduced plastic waste exports by 2030
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Lidia Creech
| 15 January 2021 |
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The latest report from the British Plastics Federation identifies out what the UK needs to achieve to reduce dependence on exporting plastic waste for recycling
Elliot Colburn MP
Beddington Lane ‘dumping ground’ of South London due to incinerator presence
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Lidia Creech
| 14 January 2021 |
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Sutton identified as the ‘dumping ground of south London’ as six MPs debated the impact of Energy from Waste on recycling rates in Parliament yesterday
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Newcastle recycling centre closed twice due to waste fire
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Lidia Creech
| 7 January 2021 |
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Newcastle City Council is taking the opportunity to remind residents about correct disposal techniques for batteries and waste electricals, which are believed to have caused the fires at Walbottle HWRC
China could introduce further waste material restrictions by 2019
EU restrictions to plastic waste exports come into force
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Lidia Creech
| 4 January 2021 |
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A ban on exporting unsorted plastic to non-OECD countries from 1 January 2021
Ben Brown
2021 to herald biggest change in biowaste market in recent years
By
Lidia Creech
| 23 December 2020 |
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With mandatory food waste collections now on the horizon decisions need to be made about collection and treatment. WRM Director Ben Brown considers what this means for the coming year
Cross-industry group announces plan to boost black plastic packaging recycling
£26 million from UKRI for plastic packaging projects
By
Lidia Creech
| 23 December 2020 |
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The funding comes as part of the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge to improve the consumer and retailer packaging supply chain
Medical waste
Cross-sector engagement essential to waste sector resilience, CIWM Covid-19 report finds
By
Patrick Jowett
| 22 December 2020 |
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Findings highlight need for policy framework that recognises role of waste industry to public health
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