Fashion chain Superdry signs up to Scotland’s Carrier Bag Commitment, two weeks ahead of the implementation of the bag charge.

A round up of business news from the waste and resource sector, including the Resource Association, ReFood, Helistrat, and Green Alliance.

Wheelabrator Technologies Inc. submits planning permission to build a 200,000 tonne incinerator in Deeside.

SITA UK has released an interactive digital map illustrating UK local authority recycling rates, in a bid to encourage residents to ‘engage’ more with recycling.

A series of international meetings are being held in Milan on urban waste collection and processing systems.

A Waste Implementation Manager at B&Q has won a fully-funded place on the University of Northampton’s Resource Management course.

Wales’s Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant backs kerbside sort collections and warns that the 70 per cent recycling target is ‘not optional’

The first reporting period of the Materials Facility Regulations, which requires operators to sample incoming and outgoing streams, has begun today.

The Welsh Government summarises what actions are being taken to reduce food and packaging waste and boost supply chain efficiencies.

Dr Helmut Maurer from the EC Directorate General for Environment has suggested that resource policy should be kept separate from waste.