National anti-litter charity Keep Britain Tidy is campaigning to boost awareness of littering by bringing back well-known symbol, the Tidyman, sporting a new, updated look.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a Veolia community fund for London, a change of name for ACR+ and a new MRF in Leeds.

The government confirmed through its Brexit White Paper that it plans to transpose all current European environmental regulation into UK law after Brexit.

Novel materials like bioplastics and carbon fibre could be key to a low-carbon, resource-efficient economy envisioned in the government’s industrial strategy, according to environmental think tank Green Alliance.

Construction businesses in Scotland are being offered free waste prevention support from Resource Efficient Scotland’s advice and support programme.

The European Defence Agency has launched a project establishing ways to incorporate the circular economy into the defence sector.

The European Commission’s roadmap for an EU strategy on plastics in the circular economy does not get to the root of the plastics problem, according to a coalition of environmental groups.

European Commission VP Frans Timmermans says “good progress” is being made on developing a circular economy in Europe and announces a new finance support platform for circular projects.

The UK’s most heavily-concentrated area of offices is to be targeted for Hubbub’s Square Mile Challenge, providing specialist bins to boost the recycling of takeaway coffee cups.

Consumer goods company Procter & Gamble is producing a limited run of recyclable shampoo bottles made from recycled beach plastic in what it says is ‘the first major step’ in establishing a supply chain taking in plastic waste collected from beaches by charities.