The Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking has approved funding for 10 projects totaling €120 million (£86 million) to boost the European bioeconomy.

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

Bio-on S.p.A ready to license new technology for making bioplastics from glycerol.

Plans by Peel Environmental to develop a £65-million Timber Resource Recovery Centre in Barnsley have been given the green light by Barnsley Council.

Scotland’s Environment Secretary has launched a social media campaign to promote the repair, reuse and remanufacturing of goods to kick-start the circular economy.

A new report details a way to produce bio-based aviation fuels from sugarcane that has the potential to deliver ‘significant cuts’ to greenhouse gasses.

Financial services corporation ING calls on the financial sector to change its approach to financing circular economy business models, which ‘challenge standard banking solutions’.

The ‘world’s first’ ocean plastics clean-up system will be deployed next year off the coast of Tsushima Island in the Korea Strait.

A delegation from the European Commission has taken part in a workshop this week to broker co-operation that could help create a new supply chain in the bio-based industry.

Resources & Waste UK has released a manifesto for 2015, which calls for the new UK government to be ‘proactively engaged’ in circular economy policy making.