A new collaborative scheme at Reading Festival will study behavioural causes of festival waste and trial new services in an attempt to reduce the 20 tonnes of reusable waste left at the site each year.

Supermarket chain Asda is to donate £360,000 made from the Welsh plastic bag charge to community groups in Wales, it has announced.

Zero Waste Scotland is advertising for two designers for a 12-week residency promoting sustainable clothing practices as part of the ‘Love Your Clothes’ campaign.

Shanks’ Mechanical Biological Treatment facility on Frog Island, East London, is now fully operational after a partial reconstruction following a fire in August 2014.

High street fashion brand H&M is taking steps to ‘close the loop’ on its products worldwide by introducing 16 new denim styles using recycled cotton from textiles collected in stores.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including EEF’s sustainability service, a new waste transfer station and a hunt for fly-tippers.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs is taking steps to improve compliance of aluminium reprocessors, following a shortfall in PRNs issued towards tatutory business targets for 2015.

The public consultation on the European Commission’s Circular Economy package ended on Thursday, with some groups publishing their responses.

An amendment to an energy transition law that sought to ban French supermarkets from destroying unused edible food has been dropped for procedural reasons, but a new draft law has already been submitted to address the issue.

The Scottish Government has launched a public consultation into the possibility of a circular economy in Scotland.