Stakeholders in the waste and reprocessing industry and its supply chain gather in London to discuss how to improve recyclate markets.

The EC will launch the roadmap for its Circular Economy Package ‘within the next few weeks’, and consult on the topic ‘before summer’, according to Director-General for Environment Karl Falkenberg.

The Resource Association is calling on the next government to implement a new Resource Management and Circular Economy Act to improve resource efficiency and waste policy.

The Business Secretary Vince Cable has officially opened Ward Recycling Ltd’s new glass clean-up extension at its Middlesbrough recycling facility.

Dundee City Council introduces food waste collections and separate glass collections as part of its new ‘Recycle for Dundee’ service.

The EC must make better use of its Ecodesign Directive if it is to address unsustainable resource consumption and bring about a circular economy, says the European Environmental Bureau.

Eunomia is calling on government to introduce a deposit-refund scheme for drinks packaging and introduce levies on chewing gum and cigarettes to reduce litter.

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.

The Dorset Waste Partnership is to continue collecting recycling via a two-stream collection system after finding separate collections are not ‘economically practicable’.