The European Commission will launch a public consultation on its revised circular economy package tomorrow, according to Defra’s Colin Church.

Nearly 80 per cent of the Scottish public support the introduction of a deposit return scheme, the Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland (APRS) has revealed.

French supermarkets will no longer be able to destroy or dispose of unused food, after the French National Assembly passes new amendments to a green energy law.

The Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland has recommended the Northern Ireland Environment Agency develop a ‘more rigorous’ approach to dealing with environmental crime.

Lord de Mauley is no longer a minister at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, after failing to be reappointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Natural Environment and Science.

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has launched a new £300,000 fund for London boroughs wishing to create ‘social supermarkets’ to reduce food waste and support those in food poverty.

The joint conference between CIWM, ESA and the Resource Association is to consider the gap between the waste sector’s circular economy ambitions and the reality influenced by austerity.

The waste and resources industry calls on the incoming Conservative government to provide greater leadership on waste and resource policy.

The European Commission’s ‘indicative roadmap’ to its revised Circular Economy Package promises an ‘ambitious’ and ‘effective’ framework that will ‘drive real change’.

With election manifestos beginning to surface, remind yourself what the various parties said about the environment back in the pure, uncomplicated days of 2015.