The Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, has unveiled a new sustainability plan for the city, which includes zero waste to landfill by 2030 and a switch to co-mingled recycling.

Zero Waste Scotland is to fund a new Volunteer and Community Advocate Programme to recruit 1,000 ‘zero waste’ volunteers in Scotland.

The EC will launch the roadmap for its Circular Economy Package ‘within the next few weeks’, and consult on the topic ‘before summer’, according to Director-General for Environment Karl Falkenberg.

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 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’.

Fashion retailer H&M and sports retailer PUMA partner with reprocessing company Worn Again to establish the viability of ‘closed loop’ textile recycling.

Eighteen projects have made the finals of the European Week For Waste Reductions Awards 2015, which recognise waste-reduction projects carried out across Europe.

Defra has welcomed the EFRA Committee’s report into food security, but reiterates that WRAP and industry are ‘best placed to act’.

Frozen food company Iglo Group and WRAP have launched a new campaign to reduce food waste levels across Europe by increasing uptake of frozen food.

Love Food Hate Waste has appointed five celebrities as ‘ambassadors’ to support the nationwide campaign in halving avoidable household food waste by 2025.