A new British Retail Consortium progress report reveals that retailers are ‘on track’ to meet their voluntary environmental targets by 2020.

Thirteen teams of 16 to 24-year-olds across the UK have been awarded £500 to develop local sustainability campaigns in Lloyds Banking Group’s ‘Money for Life’ challenge.

Aluminium reprocessing company Novelis completes its $48m upgrade of its scrap aluminum recycling facility in New York.

A new waste operative is manoeuvring its way around Southmead Hospital in Bristol. Leonie Butler went to see how it’s getting on

A round-up of business news from the waste and resources sector, including FCC Environment, Viridor, and Resource event.

Zero Waste Scotland and The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce are to host circular economy workshops in February.

The Advisory Committee on Packaging has announced its new members, which include Jonathan Short of ECO Plastics and Rick Hindley of Alupro.

Government and retailers must ‘do more’ to reduce the ‘unacceptable’ levels of food waste produced in the UK, says the EFRA Committee.

Falkirk Council has announced that it will roll out its three-weekly waste collection service to the last remaining 25,000 properties in March.

The Scottish Institute of Remanufacture, based at University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, has been officially opened.