Waste and by-products from fish, beer, and whisky businesses could boost the Scottish economy by up to £800 million a year if better utilised, finds Zero Waste Scotland.

A new EU-wide campaign is calling on the European Commission to include an obligation in its revised Circular Economy Package for supermarkets to donate their unsold food to charity.

A new Imperial College London report, commissioned by Veolia, claims that a circular economy could create 175,000 jobs and boost GDP by 1.8 per cent in the UK.

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

Eunomia warns that the UK could reach residual waste treatment overcapacity by 2019 and calls on government to manage ‘potential conflicts’ with EU recycling targets.

Viridor has agreed to send air pollution control residues from its incineration facilities to Carbon8 Aggregates Ltd for recycling.

Central government will end new public subsidies for onshore wind farms from 1 April 2016, but Scotland's Energy Minister warns the move could be subject to judicial review.

The European Parliament Environment Committee has voted through a draft report on the circular economy, which calls on the European Commission to increase recycling targets to ‘at least’ 70 per cent.

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

Global paints and chemicals company AkzoNobel has called on the UK government to standardise waste management infrastructure to facilitate the creation of a ‘closed-loop’ system for recycling unused paints.