Wales’s Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant has confirmed the evidence base of Wales’s Collection Blueprint is currently being independently reviewed, but defends the approach as ‘the most sustainable option’.

Materials recovery facility operators in Scotland will need to begin sampling incoming and outgoing material from 1 October 2015, it has been revealed.

Initial findings from Defra’s Shared Resource Efficiency Manager pilot project reveal that small- and medium-sized enterprises lack ‘good-quality’ data on materials, production, and waste.

European Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella reveals that the revised European Circular Economy Package will include more ‘country-specific’ waste targets.

Remanufacturing in Scotland could provide an extra £620 million to the economy and 5,700 extra jobs by 2020 if certain challenges are met, says Zero Waste Scotland.

The Waste & Resources Action Programme has announced the four finalists of the inaugural SCAP Extending the Life of Clothes Design Award.

Increasing food life by just one day could reduce avoidable food waste by five per cent and save approximately £600 million a year, a new WRAP report has found.

A new reuse network in Bristol, Bristol Re-use, has been awarded £50,000 from the 2015 European Green Capital group, Bristol 2015.

The Circular Economy Task Force is calling on the UK government to establish a national resources council to respond to resource supply threats.

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.