The European Parliament’s Environment Committee have been urged to impose a 50 per cent food waste reduction target in a vote on food waste regulations next week that will shape the EU’s policy on the matter for the next 15 years.

Businesses have backed the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, supporting a report outlining the potential for more than £9 trillion in benefits, and called on the UK government to help reach the global targets.

The New Plastics Economy’s latest action plan to reuse and recycle 70 per cent of the world’s plastic packaging through better design and business models has been backed by industry leaders.

Packaging group INCPEN has appointed former Kent Resource Partnership manager Paul Vanston as its new CEO.

RCVs in Thurrock and York are to be fitted with new software to look for potential potholes during their rounds in a new government-backed trial.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector including Alupro's professional cycling sponsorship, the Princess takes to the Battlefield and a HWRC contract in Devon.

SUEZ Environnement has announced a new strategic partnership with cloud-based waste management service Rubicon Global to advance the digitalisation of its recycling and recovery activities in Europe.

A Welsh landfill company has been hit with a £180,000 fine after a worker had to have both legs amputated after being hit by a vehicle.

The designer of a mobile recycling facility says that governments and NGOs must seek practical solutions to sanitation in refugee camps, with the number of displaced people around the world at record levels.

Fly-tippers in Wales could be subject to on-the-spot fixed-penalty notices of up to £400, after the government proposed new, quicker punishments to ward off waste criminals.