The London Waste and Recycling Board has announced that it is to invest up to £3 million into a private equity fund to help ‘accelerate the move to a circular economy in London’.

A round-up of business news from the waste and resources industry, including Make Noise, Every Can Counts, Grundon, and William Tracey Group.

Zero Waste Scotland is offering commercial and third-sector organisations awards of up to £100,000 to trial collections for remanufacture and reuse.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs is calling on members of the waste industry to respond to a consultation on its revised Waste Duty of Care Code of Practice.

The Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation has commissioned Resource Futures to undertake ascertain ‘the real aluminium packaging recycling figure’, as reporting levels dip.

European investment body AURELIUS Group has followed up its acquisition of plastics company ECO Plastics by purchasing Regain Polymers Holdings from Chamonix Private Equity.

Afzal Majid, Director of plastic bottle recycling company Euro Closed Loop Recycling, has warned that the company is ‘on the brink of closure’, just weeks after it was bought.

UK-based start-up organisations focused on ‘turning waste into a resource’ are being urged to apply to The Green Alley Award 2015, which aims to develop circular economy businesses.

The European Plastics Converters trade association has established the Polymers for Europe Alliance to address the supply issue that is reportedly threatening companies with bankruptcy.

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.