Members of the waste and resources industry have reacted to the announcement of the Circular Economy Package, questioning the ambition promised throughout its development.

The European Commission’s long-awaited Circular Economy Package has been launched, downgrading proposed recycling targets across the European Union to 65 per cent by 2030.

An ambitious circular economy package could save €3 billion a year and reduce unemployment in Europe, according to Green Alliance.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including rugby hoarding recycling, zero landfill restaurants and can recycling in forecourts.

Scottish TV chef Tony Singh has teamed up with the Scottish Government to help people to plan ahead with their food purchases this Christmas, and has also produced recipes for leftovers.

Friends of the Earth Europe has called for the European Commission to ramp up the ambition of its upcoming Circular Economy Package, after a leaked draft implied that expected measures have been watered down.

Circular business models for refurbished hospital equipment are to be explored in a six-month project run by Axion Consulting and Philips.

A new project by the Centre for Process Innovation is developing the use of modified strains of microorganisms to manufacture bioplastics from organic waste products.

Arsenal and France midfielder Mathieu Flamini has revealed that he is one of the people behind a bio-based company that has developed a process to produce levulinic acid on an industrial scale.

Ahead of the release of the European Commission’s Circular Economy Package, Resource sat down with EEF’s Susanne Baker to discuss the package’s potential and how close the manufacturing industry is to embracing circularity.