Up to £4 billion of value is currently ‘hidden’ in the waste generated by three major sectors and could be extracted with better reuse, recycling and remanufacturing, says Veolia.

Green City Solutions, a German start-up creating urban air purification installations, has beaten off five other circular companies to win this year’s Green Alley Award.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has partnered with the International Baccalaureate to work on embedding circular economy teaching into the IB curriculum.

A new social experiment in Manchester is to test a series of bins to see if the collection of coffee cups could be effectively recycled into new products.

Scotland’s Environment Secretary has announced a targeted round of funding to help enterprise development bodies across Scotland speed up the shift towards a circular economy within their regions.

Apps targeting food and DIY waste and a CO2–absorbing urban tree are among the innovations chosen as finalists for this year’s Green Alley Award.

A ‘world-first’ industrial-scale facility to create a chemical intermediate for plastic production from renewable sources has opened, as CEP Rapporteur Simone Bonafe calls for the mainstreaming of the circular economy approach.

Companies and councils with ‘outstanding projects, innovation or successful resource management endeavours’ have until Friday to apply for a 2016 CIWM Sustainability and Resource Award [http://www.ciwm.co.uk/ciwm/events/sustainability-and-resource-awards-2016/ciwm/events/sustainability-and-resource-awards-2016/home.aspx?hkey=3f7f4c7a-453e-4011-abd9-8ffa932e9328].

What could the future of resource use might look like if everything we saw could be enhanced with layers of digital information?

No longer the stuff of science fiction or Pixar films, robots are starting to make inroads into the world of recycling.