Aggregate businesses are set to receive several million pounds in tax rebates, after the European Commission finds levy exemptions for most secondary aggregates to be lawful.

The incoming government must take actions to improve planning if it is to transition to a sustainable economy, says an industry poll.

The Labour Party makes no mention of resources in its manifesto, but says it would invest in green innovation to reach ‘ambitious’ carbon reduction targets, if given power in the upcoming election.

The UK Independence Party would abolish WRAP, repeal the Climate Change Act, and ‘rejuvenate the coal industry’, if it were to gain power after the election.

The Liberal Democrats would set a 70 per cent recycling target for England, and introduce an incineration tax, if they were voted into power.

The Conservative Party makes no mention of waste, resource or sustainability policy in its new manifesto, despite claiming to have been the ‘greenest government ever’.

The Green Party has released its election manifesto for 2015, outlining that it would spend an extra £4 billion a year on recycling to ‘do away with damaging incineration and landfill’.

The Material Security Working Group has written an open letter to party leaders calling on them to ‘publicly commit’ to establishing an Office for Resource Management.

New legislation gives central government the ultimate responsibility for siting radioactive waste repositories in England.

A round-up of news from the waste and resource sector, including ERP, Foresight Group, DWP, and Clean Britain.