Professor Timothy Dafforn is to succeed Professor John Perkins CBE as Chief Scientific Advisor at the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills.

Eric Pickles MP, the former Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and weekly collections advocate, is to receive a knighthood for his political services.

The Resource Association has issued an open call to Prime Minister David Cameron to turn his ideas for ‘blue-collar Conservatism’ into ‘green-collar Conservatism for the green economy’.

Lord de Mauley is no longer a minister at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, after failing to be reappointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Natural Environment and Science.

The joint conference between CIWM, ESA and the Resource Association is to consider the gap between the waste sector’s circular economy ambitions and the reality influenced by austerity.

The Conservative MP for Penrith and The Border, Rory Stewart, has replaced Dan Rogerson as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.

Friends of the Earth has reiterated its call for government to review resource use, after evaluating the embodied land and water use in products.

Prime Minister David Cameron has appointed Amber Rudd as Energy Secretary, removed Eric Pickles from his role at DCLG, and retained Liz Truss and Environment Secretary at Defra.

The waste and resources industry calls on the incoming Conservative government to provide greater leadership on waste and resource policy.

English local authorities recycled the same amount of dry recyclables between July and September 2014 as they did in the corresponding period the year before, despite collecting more waste.