A round-up of business news from the waste and resources sector, including Shanks plc, SITA UK, Tamar Energy and SLR Consulting.

Element Green Recycling has produced a new web application to help businesses recycle more and earn more from their waste materials.

Forum for the Future has developed an online platform to help decision makers prepare business models for a ‘radically different world’.

The Court of Milan has banned Italian company KromaBatch from claiming that the plastic additive ‘d2w’ can ‘give biodegradability’ to traditional plastics.

The European Commission should do more to promote the bioeconomy, the European Bioeconomy Alliance has announced at its official launch.

WRAP has launched a new online ‘Recycling Locator’ that enables householders to find out what materials they can recycle and where they can recycle them.

EXCLUSIVE: Members of the biochemical sector are being asked to attend an event next week to help develop a new trade association for the industry.

The UK Green Investment Bank is launching a £50-million investment fund to support biomass projects.

Zero Waste Scotland is calling on individuals, schools and businesses across the country to take part in a national reuse week during March 2015.

A new British Retail Consortium progress report reveals that retailers are ‘on track’ to meet their voluntary environmental targets by 2020.