The Labour Party makes no mention of resources in its manifesto, but says it would invest in green innovation to reach ‘ambitious’ carbon reduction targets, if given power in the upcoming election.

The UK Independence Party would abolish WRAP, repeal the Climate Change Act, and ‘rejuvenate the coal industry’, if it were to gain power after the election.

The Liberal Democrats would set a 70 per cent recycling target for England, and introduce an incineration tax, if they were voted into power.

Wakefield Council has postponed its new co-mingling service until summer, following delays to the delivery of equipment needed for the new service.

The Conservative Party makes no mention of waste, resource or sustainability policy in its new manifesto, despite claiming to have been the ‘greenest government ever’.

The Green Party has released its election manifesto for 2015, outlining that it would spend an extra £4 billion a year on recycling to ‘do away with damaging incineration and landfill’.

Chris Dow, CEO of Closed Loop Recycling, takes a look at the problems facing the plastics markets

A round-up of news from the waste and resource industry, including frozen billboards and hydrogen cars.

Wiltshire Police are seeking witnesses to an ‘altercation’ at Trowbridge Household Recycling Centre that saw one man injured.

Weymouth & Portland Borough Council has commissioned a report looking to the impacts of leaving the Dorset Waste Partnership after finding the Recycle for Dorset service a 'fiasco'.