The EC will launch the roadmap for its Circular Economy Package ‘within the next few weeks’, and consult on the topic ‘before summer’, according to Director-General for Environment Karl Falkenberg.

Metal Processing Limited has been fined £35,000 for safety breaches after a worker severed his hands while cutting metal strips on an industrial baler.

Philip Martens, President and Chief Executive of Novelis steps down, with Senior Vice President Steve Fisher taking the helm as Interim President.

The Labour Party unveils its Green Plan for 2015, which reiterates its commitment to undertake a review of resource security and make the UK the ‘most resource-efficient economy in the world’.

A round-up of news from the waste and resource industry, including Bryson Recycling, CDEnviro, and CEPI.

Worcestershire County Council will survey district councils as part of the potential creation of a joint waste authority with Herefordshire County Council.

Members of the dairy industry did not turn up to a WRAP-brokered meeting that aimed to support the plastic reprocessing industry this week, claiming that competition law prevented their attendance.

The Teesside Construction Committee is to protest on Saturday (18 April) over perceived discrimination against local workers by SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT.

Unite union’s four-day strike at corrugated packaging company Smurfit Kappa, scheduled to begin in Northampton on Friday, has been suspended to allow appeals to be heard.

The UK Independence Party would abolish WRAP, repeal the Climate Change Act, and ‘rejuvenate the coal industry’, if it were to gain power after the election.