Online retailer Ocado will reduce landfill waste by repurposing old uniforms in collaboration with HMP Northumberland and Hubbub.

The European Commission’s long-awaited Circular Economy Package has been launched, downgrading proposed recycling targets across the European Union to 65 per cent by 2030.

Hadfield Wood Recyclers has begun accepting waste wood at its Manchester and Middlesbrough sites after closing its gates to customers four months ago to avoid Environment Agency enforcement.

An ambitious circular economy package could save €3 billion a year and reduce unemployment in Europe, according to Green Alliance.

The Derbyshire town of Swadlincote has been chosen as Sainsbury’s ‘trial town’ where innovative projects to reduce food waste will be tested over the next year.

In 2014/15, waste generation in England increased by 800,000 tonnes while the household waste recycling rate crept up to 44.7 per cent, according to data released by Defra today.

Two new recycling initiatives designed to promote plastic recycling in Cornwall have been launched.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including rugby hoarding recycling, zero landfill restaurants and can recycling in forecourts.

Northern Ireland has fallen short of its 45 per cent recycling rate target for 2015, reporting a national figure of 41.4 in new data.

Provisional data for the first quarter of 2015/16 shows that the average recycling rate in Wales has risen to 57 per cent.