The government must support more resource efficient manufacturing in the UK to redress the regional productivity gap and keep good jobs in the UK, according to a group of UK business leaders.

Peter Scholes, Principal Consultant at Anthesis Group, considers how the lack of data on the scale of commercial waste in the UK can be solved.

The Welsh Government has set the rates for its new devolved Landfill Disposals Tax, maintaining the UK’s standard rate but adding a new band for unauthorised disposals to provide a deterrent against waste crime.

Environment Secretary Michael Gove has launched a call for evidence on how reward and return schemes for beverage containers in England could help to tackle the nation’s littering problem.

The UK’s waste and resources sector has been upgraded to a ‘high risk’ environmental policy area on Greener UK’s Brexit Risk Tracker, as Defra admits that the UK is likely to miss 2020 recycling targets.

The extent of the incredible change in technology and how it is recycled in the 10 years since UK WEEE regulations were introduced, has been detailed by the European Recycling Platform.

Waste associations have written to Resources Minister Therese Coffey calling on Defra to "take urgent action" to support the recycling industry following China’s ban on the import of all scrap plastics and unsorted waste paper.

WRAP has begun working with farmers and growers to improve forecasting and maximise crop utilisation after the organisation found that some growers lose almost half of their lettuce crops to waste.

Supermarket chain Costcutter has made a donation of £650,000 to resource efficiency charity WRAP as part of a set of enforcement undertakings announced by the Environment Agency.

Increased refurbishment and remanufacture in the European furniture sector could create up to 157,000 jobs and save around six million tonnes of CO2 emissions, according to a study by the European Environmental Bureau.