The Welsh Government has introduced a new Environment (Wales) Bill, which includes a ban on incinerating recyclable materials.

The Conservative MP for Penrith and The Border, Rory Stewart, has replaced Dan Rogerson as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.

Friends of the Earth has reiterated its call for government to review resource use, after evaluating the embodied land and water use in products.

The next government should introduce new waste and recycling targets if it is to achieve a ‘green Britain’ by 2030, says renewable electricity firm Ecotricity.

The European Commission’s ‘indicative roadmap’ to its revised Circular Economy Package promises an ‘ambitious’ and ‘effective’ framework that will ‘drive real change’.

Edward Perchard reviews a collection of essays on sustainable consumption, Green Consumption: The Global Rise of Eco-Chic

'Waste as a resource’ is one of the defining mantras of our sector, but what about extending that to ‘greenhouse gas as a resource’? Libby Peake catches up with a man with exactly that vision

Despite stutters in recycling figures, Eunomia’s third Local Authority Recycling Carbon Index (included with this issue of Resource), shows the carbon figures associated with household collection are improving. Simon Hann has more

Friends of the Earth Europe, part of the world’s largest environmental network, represents 31 national organisations and thousands of local groups at European level. Libby Peake caught up with its Resource Use Campaigner, Ariadna Rodrigo

Carbon dioxide emissions saved by local authority waste and recycling services increased in 2013/14, despite recycling rates levelling off in England.