A week to raise funds for sustainable waste management activities in communities with no formal waste management has been set up for November by WasteAid UK.

A new £142-million incinerator that will treat the waste of Edinburgh and Midlothian councils has been backed by the Green Investment Bank (GIB), with investment of £28 million.

Scotland’s Environment Secretary has announced a targeted round of funding to help enterprise development bodies across Scotland speed up the shift towards a circular economy within their regions.

The future of the waste and resources sector ‘hangs in the balance’ after the Conservative Party Conference, where Therese Coffey questioned the effectiveness of the landfill tax.

The EastEnders are up in arms about plans for fortnightly bin collection, but why is the soap perpetuating negative myths? Resource’s Leonie Butler considers the situation.

Norwich City Council could ban the use of single-use plastic products at council buildings as a way of leading the charge to become a ‘pioneer plastic-free city’.

Parents on Anglesey will no longer have to provide a birth certificate to receive nappy collections, after the council loosened its criteria following feedback from residents condemning the measure.

A ‘world-first’ industrial-scale facility to create a chemical intermediate for plastic production from renewable sources has opened, as CEP Rapporteur Simone Bonafe calls for the mainstreaming of the circular economy approach.

An urgent ‘measures-led’ rethink is needed to address the growing marine plastic problem and not more targets, according to Eunomia.

FCC Environment's Kristian Dales argues that now is the time to address historic system constraints in the waste industry.