Waste and recycling technology supplier AMCS has expanded its reach with the acquisition of GMT Europe.

A report due later this year will ‘explore how the UK can move from creating waste to valuing resources’.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Amey’s new Environmental Services business, Gloucestershire waste, recycled plane products and sustainable visionaries.

Car manufacturer Ford is partnering with Jose Cuervo to turn tequila waste into new bioplastics to make car parts.

The Department of Energy & Climate Change is to be abolished in a rearrangement of government departments as Theresa May prepares her government for Brexit.

In what is being billed as ‘an excellent example of circular economy in practice’, enzymes will be used to convert unsorted household waste into biogas at a ‘bio plant’ in Cheshire.

Research into converting waste potatoes into gels that could be used in pharmaceutical, beauty and home products is seeking to turn the millions of tonnes of vegetables thrown away each year into a manufacturing resource.

A prototype barrier designed by The Ocean Cleanup to catch marine litter in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is to be deployed in the North Sea this week.

Revellers attending Glastonbury this weekend will be able to test-run a urinal that hopes to bring sustainable power to refugee camps.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including sustainable coffins, an award for the Winnow food waste meter, new bioplastic bags and an ocean waste-themed recycling forum.