The Green Party has released its election manifesto for 2015, outlining that it would spend an extra £4 billion a year on recycling to ‘do away with damaging incineration and landfill’.

The Material Security Working Group has written an open letter to party leaders calling on them to ‘publicly commit’ to establishing an Office for Resource Management.

Reforms in government machinery are ‘urgently needed’ if the UK is to meet its environmental commitments and protect the economy, says WWF-UK.

The UK Green Investment Bank is to invest £200 million in renewable energy and energy-efficiency projects in developing countries.

Friends of the Earth Europe has released a new report calling on the European Commission to make resource efficiency central to policymaking decisions.

The Material Security Working Group has introduced a parliamentary paper reiterating calls for the establishment of a central Office for Resource Management.

Senior parliamentarians from the four major political parties have agreed that political will, rather than money or technology, is holding back the UK’s renewable energy sector.

European Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella reveals that the revised European Circular Economy Package will include more ‘country-specific’ waste targets.

The Circular Economy Task Force is calling on the UK government to establish a national resources council to respond to resource supply threats.

Reducing global consumer food waste by 50 per cent could save $300 billion (£190 billion) a year by 2030, the Waste & Resources Action Programme has revealed.