Scottish manufacturing SMEs with innovative circular economy ideas or projects are being encouraged to access up to £1 million in grant funding to explore sustainable business opportunities and aid the transition to circular business models.

As London’s first Library of Things celebrates its first birthday, could community schemes sharing expensive and rarely-used equipment offer a glimpse into the future of how we handle household items?

A route map to turn London into one of the world’s most resource efficient cities has been launched by LWARB, calling on stakeholders from local government to community groups to carry out a range of actions targeting five key areas including food waste and plastics.

Stella McCartney has entered a long-term partnership with marine protection network Parley for the Oceans to use material made from recovered ocean plastic in her fashion lines.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has revealed his desire to make London the world’s leading ‘smart city’, employing the latest developments in digital technology to bring about solutions to the challenges posed by modern urban processes.

Our reliance on rare earth elements in our gadget-hungry world is growing, but at what cost?

Researchers at Lancaster University have developed a new technique for converting coffee grounds into biofuels, drastically reducing the time and energy needed in the process.

The Environmental Industries Commission has officially launched a new smart cities platform to facilitate collaboration on using smart technologies to increase drives towards sustainability.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector including a new reprocessing contract for Casepak, new packaging made from eggshells, RCVs for students and HSBC funding for a waste start-up.

Packaging materials made from upcycled agricultural residual waste have been named ‘Bio-based Material of the Year 2017’ at the 10th International Conference on Bio-based Materials.