The All-Party Parliamentary Sustainable Resource Group has published a collection of essays to help each stage of the supply chain to cut waste and become more resource efficient.

Falkirk Council has become the first local authority to sign up to the Scottish Household Recycling Charter, designed to increase consistency in recycling collections.

The years of healthy improvement in recycling rates in all quarters of the UK appear to be over. Analysis of local authorities’ waste management performance in 2014/15 suggests a mixed picture. Charles Newman does the rounds

Resource learns about a threat to one of the UK’s already existing circular economy success stories: tyre retreading

The Green Investment Bank will create a ‘special share’ in the company as part of the process to introduce private capital to the bank, the government announced yesterday.

A bill that could ban the incineration of recyclable material is to become law after being passed by the National Assembly for Wales yesterday (2 February).

Waste treatment company Clean Power Properties has suffered two setbacks to proposed waste gasification and pyrolysis developments in Corby and Carmarthenshire in the past week.

The Environment Agency has significantly missed targets to cut down on high-risk illegal waste sites in England, instead seeing an increase of 19 per cent since April 2014.

The Joint Trade Association has been chosen to operate the UK’s waste electrical and electronic equipment compliance fee mechanism for 2015, the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills has announced.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a change at the top of the EAC, a new WISH website and Environment Agency landfill training.