The European Commission has launched a public consultation on how the EU can achieve better international ocean governance and sustainably promote ‘blue growth’.

A new pilot scheme announced by Tesco, in partnership with charity FareShare and social enterprise FoodCloud, will see the supermarket’s surplus food sent to charities instead of landfill.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has appointed Rory Stewart MP as minister responsible for ‘resource and environmental management’.

The ‘world’s first’ ocean plastics clean-up system will be deployed next year off the coast of Tsushima Island in the Korea Strait.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources industry, including tyre recycling, EWWR Awards, LitterARTI, and fly-tipping prosecutions.

A delegation from the European Commission has taken part in a workshop this week to broker co-operation that could help create a new supply chain in the bio-based industry.

Resources & Waste UK has released a manifesto for 2015, which calls for the new UK government to be ‘proactively engaged’ in circular economy policy making.

West Scotland MSP Stuart McMillan has written to the Scottish Government calling on it to ban large supermarkets from disposing of unsold food items.

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the measures it should implement in its revised Circular Economy Package to bring about sustainability.

The European Environmental Bureau has launched a new campaign promoting better product design, reuse, and recycling, in a bid to reduce waste and boost resource security.