The Derbyshire town of Swadlincote has been chosen as Sainsbury’s ‘trial town’ where innovative projects to reduce food waste will be tested over the next year.

The 21st session of the Conference of Parties began in Paris yesterday, as representatives from 195 countries descended on the capital to discuss the future of the fight against climate change.

Drones could provide a cost-effective method for measuring methane fluxes from landfills, according to a study commissioned by the Environment Agency.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including rugby hoarding recycling, zero landfill restaurants and can recycling in forecourts.

Friends of the Earth Europe has called for the European Commission to ramp up the ambition of its upcoming Circular Economy Package, after a leaked draft implied that expected measures have been watered down.

The Green Investment Bank has backed £10 billion-worth of green infrastructure projects since opening three years ago, it announced yesterday (24 November), amid questions over its future.

A fleet of biogas-fuelled buses could be running in Bristol as early as next year as part of an initiative to improve air quality in the city.

London-based community scheme Teddington & Ham Hydro (T&HH) is offering a chance to invest in a new hydropower project before tax relief for community energy schemes is removed next week.

Circular business models for refurbished hospital equipment are to be explored in a six-month project run by Axion Consulting and Philips.

There is increasing consensus in the resource industry that variable charging is a good idea, but what needs to be done to bring it about, and what sort of system would be ideal? Resource convened a roundtable of experts to work out the details and charge ahead with charging. What follows is an excerpt of their conversation.