The Bio-based and Biodegradable Industries Association has taken its first steps as an association by officially launching its website and requesting a meeting with Resource Minister Rory Stewart.

Zero Waste Scotland is offering third-sector organisations grants of up to £1,800 to train staff in repair and upcycling skills.

A new EU-wide campaign is calling on the European Commission to include an obligation in its revised Circular Economy Package for supermarkets to donate their unsold food to charity.

A round-up of business news from the waste and recycling industry, including On-Pack Recycling Label, SLR Consulting, and Coca-Cola Enterprises.

Business Secretary Sajid Javid MP has announced plans to privatise the Green Investment Bank (GIB) by selling off the majority of the government’s shares over the next five years.

A collaborative US report has proposed a number of policies to improve the poor health and safety records of American recycling companies.

A new Imperial College London report, commissioned by Veolia, claims that a circular economy could create 175,000 jobs and boost GDP by 1.8 per cent in the UK.

The UK Green Investment Bank has made its 50th investment by committing £2 million in a new sewage heat recovery system in Scotland.

Porthmadog Skip Hire has been ordered to stop accepting waste at its site in north Wales until it can comply with the conditions of its environmental permit.

The Director of Aylesbury Mushrooms (Farms) Ltd and Director of SJ Radband Haulage Ltd ordered to pay a total of £21,000 for illegal depositing 3,000 tonnes of waste at a farm in Bampton.