The next government should introduce new waste and recycling targets if it is to achieve a ‘green Britain’ by 2030, says renewable electricity firm Ecotricity.

Despite stutters in recycling figures, Eunomia’s third Local Authority Recycling Carbon Index (included with this issue of Resource), shows the carbon figures associated with household collection are improving. Simon Hann has more

Carbon dioxide emissions saved by local authority waste and recycling services increased in 2013/14, despite recycling rates levelling off in England.

A round-up of business news from the waste and resources sector, including Viridor landfill fire, Jayplas appointments, and Ed Davey cardboard cutouts.

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 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 European Commission’s Environment Committee has approved a draft law that sets a six per cent cap on the use of traditional, crop-based biofuels.

The Peel Group is delaying the construction of its new biomass incineration plant in Manchester to assess whether combined heat and power would be more energy efficient.

The Merseyside Waste & Recycling Authority is offering voluntary groups and social enterprises a share of a £110,000 Community Fund pot to deliver green projects

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