The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has released a progress report on its 2013 Waste Prevention Programme for England.

Central government has announced the 10 winners of the first round of the Innovation in Waste Prevention fund.

Government must work to ‘lift the regulatory burden’ on remanufacturing if its ‘enormous economic, social and environmental potential’ is to be realised.

A round-up of business news from the resource sector, including Recolight, FCC Environment, Viridor, and Remondis.

Stakeholders in reuse and collaborative consumption attended the SHARE:Summit on Friday to discuss how to accelerate the sharing economy.

Local authorities in Wales reach their highest reuse, recycling and composting level yet – achieving 58 per cent between April and June 2014.

WRAP Northern Ireland conference tackles the ‘urgent need’ for greater collaboration within Northern Ireland’s waste agenda.

The UK government should do more to support a ‘sharing economy’ and boost collaborative consumption, says new BIS-commissioned report.

More than 12,000 waste reduction actions will take place across 28 countries this week as part of the annual European Week for Waste Reduction.

Zero Waste Scotland has opened a new grant fund for those implementing reuse and repair hubs.