Funding of £1.5 million is to be made available for businesses and research institutions working in the bioeconomy in Scotland to support innovative work that will help deliver circular economy growth.

Defra has launched a consultation on which of two proposed WEEE compliance fee mechanisms should be used, if any, for 2016.

The potential for a post-Brexit shake-up of the UK’s packaging waste compliance system has been investigated in a report commissioned by the Environmental Services Association.

The amount of metal packaging being recycled by Warwick’s kerbside collection service rose by 28 per cent in the six months after the council signed up to the MetalMatters communication campaign.

Compliance scheme Recolight has  urged local authorities to save money by taking advantage of new government classifications and including commercial waste lamps in free household collections.

LARAC, the body representing local authority recycling officers, has joined the board of OPRL, the UK’s packaging recycling label scheme – the third industry body to buy into the scheme in the past year.

European Environment Ministers have been urged to keep faith with ‘ambitious’ recycling targets for Europe after opposition emerged from countries including Germany and the UK.

A new social experiment in Manchester is to test a series of bins to see if the collection of coffee cups could be effectively recycled into new products.

A new set of guidelines on recycling is hoping to clear up once and for all what materials can and can’t be recycled at the kerbside in an attempt to remove the confusion holding back recycling the UK.

Waste management firm SUEZ hopes to develop collections of complex and hard-to-recycle products across Europe after acquiring a 30 per cent stake in community collection programme TerraCycle.