A round up of news from the waste and resources sector including funding for community projects in Northern Ireland, ethical business accreditation to a UK mattress company, a charity Christmas jumper swap, and more.

Up to £4 billion of value is currently ‘hidden’ in the waste generated by three major sectors and could be extracted with better reuse, recycling and remanufacturing, says Veolia.

A new report from the Welsh Government has found that enhancing recycling in Wales could potentially save 86,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent.

Eunomia’s latest Local Authority Recycling Carbon Index shows that improvements in Wales and Northern Ireland have overshadowed England’s stuttering recycling efforts.

The US Navy has begun deploying its ‘Great Green Fleet’, powered in part by an alternative fuel made from waste beef fat

Nick Watts reviews a new book looking at the politics of green trabsformations.

The United Nations has agreed a draft for its 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, which seeks to halve global food waste, ‘substantially reduce waste generation’ and curb climate change.

The UK Green Investment Bank and investment company Equitix have announced a £14.6 million investment in a new Sheffield-based biomass plant.

Glasgow Airport has increased its recycling rate to over 90 per cent after implementing Zero Waste Scotland’s Resource Efficiency Pledge.

ArcelorMittal, LanzaTech, and Primetals Technologies have announced that they are to build ‘Europe’s first-ever commercial-scale production facility to create bioethanol from waste gases produced during the steelmaking process’.