Businesses are being urged to apply to the £3.8-million Scottish Recycling Fund to further reprocessing, repair, and remanufacturing work.

Members of the environment, sustainability and manufacturing sectors, including Peter Madden and Emma Elston, have been recognised in the New Year’s Honours list for 2015.

A consortium comprising technology firm Babcock & Wilcox Volund and construction company Interserve has been chosen to build Viridor’s incinerator in East Lothian.

Container manufacturer Taylor has appointed Brendan Murphy as its new CEO, following David Williams’s departure.

The waste electrical and electronic equipment distributor take back scheme is calling on local authorities to apply to its £700,000 fund to further reuse and recycling.

Government must work to ‘lift the regulatory burden’ on remanufacturing if its ‘enormous economic, social and environmental potential’ is to be realised.

A round-up of business news from the resource sector, including Recolight, FCC Environment, Viridor, and Remondis.

The Green Investment Bank is investing £30m in a new combined heat and power biomass plant in Merseyside.

The Waste & Resources Action Programme is focusing on resource security as part of its annual conference.

Fifty organisations have signed up to WRAP’s Electrical and Electronic Sustainability Action Plan since July.