Zero Waste Scotland is to fund a new Volunteer and Community Advocate Programme to recruit 1,000 ‘zero waste’ volunteers in Scotland.

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’.

Four retailers have raised more than £1 million for charity via Scotland’s single-use carrier bag charge, which was introduced six months ago.

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

Eighteen projects have made the finals of the European Week For Waste Reductions Awards 2015, which recognise waste-reduction projects carried out across Europe.

The EC must make better use of its Ecodesign Directive if it is to address unsustainable resource consumption and bring about a circular economy, says the European Environmental Bureau.

Friends of the Earth Europe has released a new report calling on the European Commission to make resource efficiency central to policymaking decisions.

The Material Security Working Group has introduced a parliamentary paper reiterating calls for the establishment of a central Office for Resource Management.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Zero Waste Scotland, Recolight, Europêche, and Casepak.