The Scottish Environment Protection Agency is to begin a consultation process looking at improvements to Scotland’s compliance assessment scheme for environmental permits.

RWM, the exhibition for recycling and waste management, takes place in Birmingham next week, and will this year focus on innovation and insight on circular economy ambitions.

The Department for Transport has awarded £25 million in funding to three projects creating biofuel from residual, whisky and forestry waste, to help decarbonise the transport sector.

A funding pot of £775,000 has been established to help local authorities increase the collection, reuse and recycling of unwanted electrical items.

The Department for Communities and Local Government is set to abandon its campaign for weekly waste collections due departmental spending cuts, according to reports.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Notting Hill Carnival waste, a youth recycling scheme and a CIWM communications workshop.

Oxfordshire County Council may ask the government to review its policy on providing household waste recycling centres for free, depending on the outcome of a debate on Tuesday.

Kerry McCarthy, Labour MP for Bristol East, will introduce a bill to Parliament next week to address the unsustainable levels of waste within the food industry.

If the 2.6 million tonnes of refuse-derived fuel exported from the UK in 2014 were processed domestically, it would contribute just 0.8 per cent to renewable electricity generation, says a new RDF Export Industry Group report.

Gwyn Davies-McTiffin, a waste recycling firm in Batley, has been sentenced for safety failings following the death of a worker.