• People will still be visited by officers if they are throwing away recyclable waste.

    BBC: Monmouthshire council scraps clear bin bags plan

  • The council said non-recyclable waste, including irons and mattresses, had been dumped at the sites turning them into "eyesores".

    BBC: Oxford

  • Vale of White Horse District Council has blamed "irresponsible companies" and "lazy individuals" for dumping non-recyclable waste at bin sites.

    BBC: Oxford

  • Buckinghamshire County Council said the facility was expected to convert 300, 000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste a year into enough energy to power up to 36, 000 homes.

    BBC: Artists impression of Calvert incinerator

  • About half of the local authorities in the UK currently operate so-called "alternate week collections", whereby recyclable waste is removed one week, and black bag rubbish the next.

    BBC: Call to recycle food separately

  • The States has instructed PSD to introduce the house-to-house collection of recyclable waste - both inert and putrescible - as soon as possible, as part of a new strategy to increase recycling.

    BBC: Guernsey minister defends kerbside recycling costs

  • Companies that have their origin in social enterprise find that meeting commitments are part of their founding corporate DNA. New Jersey-based TerraCycle, for example, builds its products from non-recyclable waste that would otherwise be dumped in landfills.

    FORBES: Clarifying Corporate Responsibility, Part III: Committing To Improvement

  • Many foreign firms, of course, are doing well in China, especially at the two extremes of the value chain: things like luxury goods, fibre-optic cable and big aeroplanes on the one hand, and oil, ores and recyclable waste on the other.

    ECONOMIST: Selling foreign goods in China

  • It portrays the innovative work of former Mayor of Curitiba (Brazil), Jaime Lerner, who was responsible for developing an efficient public transport system (the MetroBus), and a clever system of sorting of waste (Cambio verde), which offers to the poorest urban dwellers the possibility to exchange recyclable waste for fruits and vegetables.

    UNESCO: Social Sciences

  • Many councils have moved away from weekly collections in recent years, arguing that alternate weekly collections for household-and-food waste and recyclable items are more efficient and popular with residents.

    BBC: Eric Pickles warns councils over weekly bin collections

  • Most households are provided with bins for garden waste, everyday non-recyclable rubbish and a container for paper and tins.

    BBC: Paper

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