Prime Minister David Cameron has appointed Amber Rudd as Energy Secretary, removed Eric Pickles from his role at DCLG, and retained Liz Truss and Environment Secretary at Defra.

The waste and resources industry calls on the incoming Conservative government to provide greater leadership on waste and resource policy.

Dr Stuart McLanaghan of environmental consultancy Eden 21 argues for a new resource hierarchy, explaining why we need new metrics for resource use.

English local authorities recycled the same amount of dry recyclables between July and September 2014 as they did in the corresponding period the year before, despite collecting more waste.

The next government should introduce new waste and recycling targets if it is to achieve a ‘green Britain’ by 2030, says renewable electricity firm Ecotricity.

The European Commission’s ‘indicative roadmap’ to its revised Circular Economy Package promises an ‘ambitious’ and ‘effective’ framework that will ‘drive real change’.

Ray Georgeson considers whether all the new waste regulations and policies mean we are suffering from separation anxiety

Recycling firm Street Fuel Limited has been fined £5,000 after a worker sustained arm injuries whilst operating a baler machine.

England and Wales now have the same legal requirement for local authorities to separately collect certain dry recyclables – but uptake of separate collections in the two countries has been vastly different. Annie Kane finds out why

After reviewing the separate sort vs. co-mingled debate [http://resource.co/article/going-separate-ways-10089], Annie Kane takes a look at a local authority that has chosen to undertake co-mingled collections, and the reasons for doing so