RECOUP’s guideline document for those who use plastic packaging, Recyclability by Design, has been refreshed and revised for Spring 2015.

The UK Green Investment Bank’s interventions in the UK waste sector ‘risk hindering the country’s efforts to increase recycling’, warns Eunomia.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources industry, including Novelis, ACE UK, Pledge4Plastics, and O2 Recycle.

Wrexham County Borough Council has become the 50th local authority to partner with the MetalMatters recycling campaign.

A roundtable event looking back on the changes brought in by the recast of the WEEE Directive was hosted by REPIC at the Houses of Parliament earlier this week.

Industry stakeholders urgently call on retailers to switch back to using recycled plastic packaging, as the market experiences ‘unprecedented challenges’.

The EC must make better use of its Ecodesign Directive if it is to address unsustainable resource consumption and bring about a circular economy, says the European Environmental Bureau.

Three councils have begun trialling kerbside recycling collections of flexible laminated packaging as part of a new Defra-funded study.

The Budget 2015 reveals that government will provide an extra £4.2 million to tackle waste crime, reform the Landfill Communities Fund, and introduce a raft of initiatives to “put Britain at the forefront of the online sharing economy”.

Bedfordshire waste management firm Monoworld Limited has been ordered to pay more than £23,000 for the illegal shipment of waste.