The European Parliament Environment Committee has voted through a draft report on the circular economy, which calls on the European Commission to increase recycling targets to ‘at least’ 70 per cent.

The European Commission has launched a consultation on ‘the nature and the extent of regulatory failures causing undue distortions to EU waste markets for recycling and recovery’.

Scotland’s Environment Secretary has launched a social media campaign to promote the repair, reuse and remanufacturing of goods to kick-start the circular economy.

Four Welsh councils have been spared fines imposed by the Welsh Government for failing to hit recycling targets, after successfully demonstrating that they intend to improve their performance.

Sustainable consumption and production is the theme of World Environment Day 2015 (5 June), organised by the United Nations Environment Programme.

World Child Cancer CEO will take on the same role at environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy in August.

A new pilot scheme announced by Tesco, in partnership with charity FareShare and social enterprise FoodCloud, will see the supermarket’s surplus food sent to charities instead of landfill.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources industry, including tyre recycling, EWWR Awards, LitterARTI, and fly-tipping prosecutions.

Resources & Waste UK has released a manifesto for 2015, which calls for the new UK government to be ‘proactively engaged’ in circular economy policy making.

West Scotland MSP Stuart McMillan has written to the Scottish Government calling on it to ban large supermarkets from disposing of unsold food items.