Sustainability consultancy Anthesis Group receives £4 million investment.

A new Zero Waste Scotland-backed communal working space and sharing facility that helps fashion and textiles professionals work sustainably will open today in Edinburgh.

WRAP's annual report warns that the fall in price of oil ‘threatens to undermine the viability’ of markets for recycled plastics.

The United Nations has agreed a draft for its 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, which seeks to halve global food waste, ‘substantially reduce waste generation’ and curb climate change.

The London Waste and Recycling Board has announced that it is to invest up to £3 million into a private equity fund to help ‘accelerate the move to a circular economy in London’.

National environmental charities have written to David Cameron expressing concern that 10 environmental policies have been ‘cancelled or weakened’ in the first months of his new government.

As the drive to improve recycling rates gathers momentum, FCC Environment's Steve Bell warns that there is a risk of reuse falling by the kerbside and calls for a change in legislation.

Somerset Waste Partnership is asking waste treatment suppliers to suggest alternatives to landfill, in the hope of reducing the £12 million it spends on waste disposal.

Zero Waste Scotland is offering commercial and third-sector organisations awards of up to £100,000 to trial collections for remanufacture and reuse.

The House of Lords has used the ‘Green Card’ initiative to call on the European Commission to take a strategic approach to food waste reduction in the forthcoming Circular Economy Package.