A substance that can provide sustenance to maintain life on earth, that prevents flooding and desertification and that could even reverse climate change might sound impossible, but that material is right under our feet.

Voting for this year’s Resource Hot 100 is now open. This is your chance to vote for the waste and resources industry’s biggest influencers.

A round up of news from the waste and resources sector including a creative writing initiative with REPIC, a recycling trial at Lord’s, reuse in Wrexham and a new appointment at Ecosurety.

The campaign to inform businesses of their obligations to correctly dispose of their waste now has 23 ambassador organisations spreading the message to suppliers, customers and members of these organisations.

British fashion designer Stella McCartney says the fashion industry is “getting away with murder” through its failure to switch to more sustainable models.

The Welsh Government and the county of Rhondda Cynon Taf have called on local businesses to come up with innovative new solutions to allow every part of the mattress to be recycled as part of a competition this winter.

The Environmental Audit Committee has called for the Treasury to take a long-term view of sustainability, after ‘riding roughshod’ over departments and cancelling environmental programmes at short notice.

Speaking to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tristram Stuart have called for supermarkets to provide greater transparency on their food waste.

The Department of Health has announced that it will review the impact of marine microplastics on human health, in response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s inquiry on microplastic pollution.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a school food waste initiative, smart bin success and an anti-littering poster.