Zero Waste Scotland and the Scottish Government have allocated more than £820,000 to the resource management industry to help combat challenges arising from Covid-19 restrictions.

The Scottish Government’s public consultation on single-use plastics, which opened yesterday (12 October), aims to ban the sale of single-use plastics.

A new report commissioned by Zero Waste Scotland highlights the climate change challenges posed by the country’s existing energy-from-waste infrastructure.

Zero Waste Scotland has announced that Scotland’s waste-related carbon emissions for 2018 have fallen to 30 per cent below the 2011 baseline, but warns there is still ‘more to be done’ to reach the net-zero greenhouse gases target by 2045.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced that it will be extending the plastic bag charge in England to all retailers from April 2021 as part of its ‘war on plastic waste’.

A new £26.5-million district-heating network in Cardiff has secured £15 million of funding to begin the first phase of works.

A cross-party group of 20 MPs have called on the prime minister to back an all-in deposit return scheme for drinks containers.

Scottish waste management firms impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic have seen the deadline for applications for grant support extended until the end of August.

Zero Waste Scotland has launched a campaign urging people to bin litter or take it home as Covid-19 lockdown measures ease.

Minister for Trade, Investment and Innovation says clarity on infrastructure investment is vital in Scotland’s commitment to green leadership