The CLG Committee is calling on government to assign a portion of any increase in tobacco levies to local councils to help cover the cost street cleaning.

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

Wales’s Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant has confirmed the evidence base of Wales’s Collection Blueprint is currently being independently reviewed, but defends the approach as ‘the most sustainable option’.

Materials recovery facility operators in Scotland will need to begin sampling incoming and outgoing material from 1 October 2015, it has been revealed.

Fife Council announces plan to trial monthly waste collections, making it the first council in Britain to do so.

Initial findings from Defra’s Shared Resource Efficiency Manager pilot project reveal that small- and medium-sized enterprises lack ‘good-quality’ data on materials, production, and waste.

A new reuse network in Bristol, Bristol Re-use, has been awarded £50,000 from the 2015 European Green Capital group, Bristol 2015.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including SEPA reuse workshops, Rexam can certification, and Remondis appointments.

The Welsh Government has released its finalised fly-tipping strategy, outlining the steps it will take to tackle illegal dumping of waste.

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.