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

Wrexham County Borough Council has become the 50th local authority to partner with the MetalMatters recycling campaign.

Businesses and individuals are being encouraged to take part in the UK’s first Community Clear Up Day on Saturday (21 March)

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.

Three councils have begun trialling kerbside recycling collections of flexible laminated packaging as part of a new Defra-funded study.

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.

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’.

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

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’.