Zero Waste Scotland and The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce are to host circular economy workshops in February.

The first year results of Courtauld Commitment 3 show that manufacturing and retail waste is on the rise, despite a voluntary target to reduce it by three per cent.

Government and retailers must ‘do more’ to reduce the ‘unacceptable’ levels of food waste produced in the UK, says the EFRA Committee.

Northern Ireland has extended its five-pence carrier bag charge to include all new ‘cheap’ carrier bags, including reusable ones.

This year, Novelis opened the world’s largest aluminium recycling centre in Germany. Annie Kane learns more

Stansted Airport’s waste management system has really – ahem – taken off. Oscar Henson learns more

Wales moves closer to standardising waste and recycling containers, as WRAP Cymru calls for tenders for waste and recycling containers that support the Collections Blueprint.

Britain could create up to 517,000 jobs by achieving its circular economy ambitions, a new study by WRAP and Green Alliance has found.

New figures released by the British Retail Consortium show that the seven major UK supermarkets produced just 1.3 per cent of all UK food waste in 2013.

Averies Recycling (Swindon) Ltd has entered administration, but is still liable to clean up its fire-struck site at Marshgate.