The European Parliament Environment Committee has voted through a draft report on the circular economy, which calls on the European Commission to increase recycling targets to ‘at least’ 70 per cent.

A bus running on biomethane gas (CNG) recovered from cow manure has set a new land speed record for a service bus after recording speeds of over 75 miles per hour.

The Biobased and Biodegradable Industries Association has appointed Andy Sweetman as Chairman and chosen six other board members from across the bioindustry.

Members of the resource and energy industries welcome the Liberal Democrat Party’s green pledges, and commend its track record on the environment.

The Labour Party unveils its Green Plan for 2015, which reiterates its commitment to undertake a review of resource security and make the UK the ‘most resource-efficient economy in the world’.

The Conservative Party makes no mention of waste, resource or sustainability policy in its new manifesto, despite claiming to have been the ‘greenest government ever’.

The Green Party has released its election manifesto for 2015, outlining that it would spend an extra £4 billion a year on recycling to ‘do away with damaging incineration and landfill’.

The UK Green Investment Bank is to invest £200 million in renewable energy and energy-efficiency projects in developing countries.

Senior parliamentarians from the four major political parties have agreed that political will, rather than money or technology, is holding back the UK’s renewable energy sector.

The Peel Group is delaying the construction of its new biomass incineration plant in Manchester to assess whether combined heat and power would be more energy efficient.