The Bio-based and Biodegradable Industries Association has taken its first steps as an association by officially launching its website and requesting a meeting with Resource Minister Rory Stewart.

A new EU-wide campaign is calling on the European Commission to include an obligation in its revised Circular Economy Package for supermarkets to donate their unsold food to charity.

Scotland’s Zero Waste Taskforce will release a household recycling charter in summer to make collections ‘more consistent’.

Food waste should be a ‘top priority’ in the European Commission’s revised Circular Economy Package, WRAP CEO Liz Goodwin tells Resourcing the Future 2015 Conference.

The Waste & Resources Action Programme has unveiled its plan for the next five years, which aims to ‘create a revolution in the way that we use resources’.

Newly-appointed Resource Minister Rory Stewart has promised delegates at Resourcing the Future that he will listen to and support the industry.

The UK Green Investment Bank has made its 50th investment by committing £2 million in a new sewage heat recovery system in Scotland.

FareShare South West and Create UK Ltd are amongst the winners of the second funding round of Defra's Innovation in Waste Prevention Fund.

The Director of Aylesbury Mushrooms (Farms) Ltd and Director of SJ Radband Haulage Ltd ordered to pay a total of £21,000 for illegal depositing 3,000 tonnes of waste at a farm in Bampton.

As Recycle Week begins, WRAP is urging consumers to check whether items are recyclable before throwing them away, after finding that nearly a third of people are confused about recycling.