A new £142-million incinerator that will treat the waste of Edinburgh and Midlothian councils has been backed by the Green Investment Bank (GIB), with investment of £28 million.

Scotland’s Environment Secretary has announced a targeted round of funding to help enterprise development bodies across Scotland speed up the shift towards a circular economy within their regions.

Apps targeting food and DIY waste and a CO2–absorbing urban tree are among the innovations chosen as finalists for this year’s Green Alley Award.

Norwich City Council could ban the use of single-use plastic products at council buildings as a way of leading the charge to become a ‘pioneer plastic-free city’.

Parents on Anglesey will no longer have to provide a birth certificate to receive nappy collections, after the council loosened its criteria following feedback from residents condemning the measure.

A ‘world-first’ industrial-scale facility to create a chemical intermediate for plastic production from renewable sources has opened, as CEP Rapporteur Simone Bonafe calls for the mainstreaming of the circular economy approach.

Waste created by students decamping from their halls has been addressed by a partnership between the University of St Andrews and The Furniture Recycling Group.

An urgent ‘measures-led’ rethink is needed to address the growing marine plastic problem and not more targets, according to Eunomia.

The Labour Party ‘will embrace the circular economy’ and become the ‘Party for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’, Shadow Environment Secretary Rachael Maskell told the party’s annual conference.

Eight per cent of a product's environmental impact is determined during its design, so here are three examples of products doing things the right way and desinging out waste.