Consultancy Eunomia will investigate potential ways to accelerate a circular economy across the European furniture industry in a project commissioned by the European Environmental Bureau.

Waitrose, John Lewis and Argos heavy goods vehicles are to be amongst the first UK users of a renewable biomethane fuel which costs 35-40 per cent less than diesel and emits 70 per cent less CO2.

Southampton-based Princess Cruises has been ordered to pay a £31-million penalty for illegal dumping of contaminated oil waste off the English coast.

Firefighters are this morning continuing to fight a fire at a hazardous waste facility operated by Remondis after it broke out on Sunday morning.

More than 50 firefighters and a dozen fire engines were called out to tackle a major fire at New Earth Solutions’s Gloucestershire recycling facility on Friday.

A round up of news from the waste and resources sector including funding for community projects in Northern Ireland, ethical business accreditation to a UK mattress company, a charity Christmas jumper swap, and more.

Tesco and Sainsbury’s, two of the UK’s largest supermarkets, have pledged to ban plastic cotton buds and will replace plastic stems with paper in their own brand products by the end of 2017.

A Welsh hospital group is trialling an innovative recycling process of sterilisation wrap, diverting tonnes of medical waste from incineration every month.

Tesco has rolled out a new crowdfunding platform, BackIt, to help small businesses and entrepreneurs gain funding for their food waste-reducing ideas.

A new report by Eunomia Research & Consulting suggests that investment in advanced conversion technologies (ACTs) may still be beneficial, despite the technology’s mixed track record.