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 Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking has approved funding for 10 projects totaling €120 million (£86 million) to boost the European bioeconomy.

A collaborative US report has proposed a number of policies to improve the poor health and safety records of American recycling companies.

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’.

A new Imperial College London report, commissioned by Veolia, claims that a circular economy could create 175,000 jobs and boost GDP by 1.8 per cent in the UK.

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.

Porthmadog Skip Hire has been ordered to stop accepting waste at its site in north Wales until it can comply with the conditions of its environmental permit.

Eunomia warns that the UK could reach residual waste treatment overcapacity by 2019 and calls on government to manage ‘potential conflicts’ with EU recycling targets.