Resource Minister Dan Rogerson has been appointed joint Ministerial Champion for the Bioeconomy, alongside Minister of State for Business, Enterprise and Energy, Matthew Hancock MP.

The proportion of UK local authorities offering kerbside carton collection has reached 60 per cent, finds ACE UK.

WRAP has issued new guidance on the reuse and recycling of used carpet materials, in association with Carpet Recycling UK.

Supermarket chain Asda is to extend its food redistribution network initiative to include surplus food created by its manufacturers.

Keep Scotland Beautiful tells Stop Litter Now! summit that the EU’s litter problem costs member states a total of £10 billion a year.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has released a progress report on its 2013 Waste Prevention Programme for England.

Central government has announced the 10 winners of the first round of the Innovation in Waste Prevention fund.

Veolia has developed a new technology that can process the contaminated paper element of residual waste into pulp material for new products.

Wakefield Council is to move to co-mingled recycling collections in 2015, after internal TEEP test finds separate collections to be neither economically nor environmentally practicable.

Plastics reprocessing company ECO Plastics announces it is looking for a buyer, following ‘operational challenges and unfavourable market conditions’.