A new Imperial College London report, commissioned by Veolia, claims that a circular economy could create 175,000 jobs and boost GDP by 1.8 per cent in the UK.

FareShare South West and Create UK Ltd are amongst the winners of the second funding round of Defra's Innovation in Waste Prevention Fund.

Flintshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport City and Wrexham councils are to receive £3 million from the Welsh Government to improve recycling infrastructure and increase recycling rates.

Bio-on S.p.A ready to license new technology for making bioplastics from glycerol.

FareShare has launched an eight-step Food Efficiency Framework to help businesses identify and redistribute surplus food in order to reduce waste arisings.

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.

Four Welsh councils have been spared fines imposed by the Welsh Government for failing to hit recycling targets, after successfully demonstrating that they intend to improve their performance.

Financial services corporation ING calls on the financial sector to change its approach to financing circular economy business models, which ‘challenge standard banking solutions’.

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

A new pilot scheme announced by Tesco, in partnership with charity FareShare and social enterprise FoodCloud, will see the supermarket’s surplus food sent to charities instead of landfill.