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.

Four Welsh councils have been spared fines imposed by the Welsh Government for failing to hit recycling targets, after successfully demonstrating that they intend to improve their performance.

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

Food waste recycling company ReFood has completed a £6-million expansion project at its anaerobic digestion facility in Doncaster.

Members of the public are being invited to attend public exhibitions about the new Edmonton EcoPark in Enfield, which will burn up to 700,000 tonnes of waste a year.

Philip Simpson, Commercial Director at ReFood, looks at the latest developments in food waste recycling and discusses his wishes for greater government commitment.

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

Norfolk County Council will continue sending its residual waste to Suffolk County Council’s Great Blakenham incinerator until 2020, while it considers a ‘sustainable long-term solution’ for its waste.

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.

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the measures it should implement in its revised Circular Economy Package to bring about sustainability.