Sheffield City Council is consulting on introducing shared bins to high-density areas, amongst other proposals, in a bid to save £3.4 million by 2017.

The CLG Committee is calling on government to assign a portion of any increase in tobacco levies to local councils to help cover the cost street cleaning.

Friends of the Earth Europe has released a new report calling on the European Commission to make resource efficiency central to policymaking decisions.

The Dorset Waste Partnership is to continue collecting recycling via a two-stream collection system after finding separate collections are not ‘economically practicable’.

Rhiannon Hunt, a graduate of the Chelsea College of Art and Design, has won WRAP's inaugural Extending the Life of Clothes Design Award.

The six finalists of the Bio-based Material of the Year award have been named by the nova-Institute for Ecology and Innovation.

Plastic film reprocessing company PlasRecycle has become a full member of the Resource Association.

The Material Security Working Group has introduced a parliamentary paper reiterating calls for the establishment of a central Office for Resource Management.

Wales’s Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant has confirmed the evidence base of Wales’s Collection Blueprint is currently being independently reviewed, but defends the approach as ‘the most sustainable option’.

Materials recovery facility operators in Scotland will need to begin sampling incoming and outgoing material from 1 October 2015, it has been revealed.