Businesses are being urged to apply to the £3.8-million Scottish Recycling Fund to further reprocessing, repair, and remanufacturing work.

A new law has come into effect in New York making it illegal for residents to put some electronic equipment in kerbside waste collections.

Members of the environment, sustainability and manufacturing sectors, including Peter Madden and Emma Elston, have been recognised in the New Year’s Honours list for 2015.

Supermarket chain ASDA will begin selling misshapen fruit and vegetables in five of its stores this month, in a bid to reduce food waste.

Chris Dow, CEO of Closed Loop Recycling, touches on how oil prices are affecting the recycled plastics industry and reveals his wish list for 2015.

Six waste and resource management bodies have written to the main political parties in England outlining policy priority suggestions for the next administration.

Environmental consultancy Resource Futures has secured a contract to continue providing young people in Brighton & Hove with lessons on sustainability.

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Climate Change Amber Rudd MP officially switches on Europe’s ‘largest network-connected battery’.

Stakeholders in the circular economy voice scepticism over the European Commission’s decision to introduce a ‘more ambitious’ proposal next year.

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