The UK Green Investment Bank has made its 50th investment by committing £2 million in a new sewage heat recovery system in Scotland.

The European Parliament Environment Committee has voted through a draft report on the circular economy, which calls on the European Commission to increase recycling targets to ‘at least’ 70 per cent.

A new report details a way to produce bio-based aviation fuels from sugarcane that has the potential to deliver ‘significant cuts’ to greenhouse gasses.

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on how the EU can achieve better international ocean governance and sustainably promote ‘blue growth’.

Resources & Waste UK has released a manifesto for 2015, which calls for the new UK government to be ‘proactively engaged’ in circular economy policy making.

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the measures it should implement in its revised Circular Economy Package to bring about sustainability.

The European Environmental Bureau has launched a new campaign promoting better product design, reuse, and recycling, in a bid to reduce waste and boost resource security.

The European Commission will launch a public consultation on its revised circular economy package tomorrow, according to Defra’s Colin Church.

Nestlé UK & Ireland’s Fawdon factory in Newcastle upon Tyne achieves zero waste to landfill.

The Welsh Government has introduced a new Environment (Wales) Bill, which includes a ban on incinerating recyclable materials.