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.

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.

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

The Labour Party makes no mention of resources in its manifesto, but says it would invest in green innovation to reach ‘ambitious’ carbon reduction targets, if given power in the upcoming election.

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.

The Liberal Democrats would set a 70 per cent recycling target for England, and introduce an incineration tax, if they were voted into power.

Water found in abandoned coal mines has been identified as a 'new' source of renewable energy, following a two year study by Nottingham Trent University.

The Conservative Party makes no mention of waste, resource or sustainability policy in its new manifesto, despite claiming to have been the ‘greenest government ever’.

The Green Party has released its election manifesto for 2015, outlining that it would spend an extra £4 billion a year on recycling to ‘do away with damaging incineration and landfill’.