EXCLUSIVE: Members of the biochemical sector are being asked to attend an event next week to help develop a new trade association for the industry.

Consumer goods company Unilever has announced that it has achieved zero waste to landfill.

A new British Retail Consortium progress report reveals that retailers are ‘on track’ to meet their voluntary environmental targets by 2020.

Reading Borough Council is considering introducing food waste collections to resdients as part of a five-year plan to drive up recycling rates.

Thirteen teams of 16 to 24-year-olds across the UK have been awarded £500 to develop local sustainability campaigns in Lloyds Banking Group’s ‘Money for Life’ challenge.

Zero Waste Scotland and The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce are to host circular economy workshops in February.

New data published for the second quarter of 2014/15 shows that, for the first time since 2009/10, household recycling rates have stalled in Northern Ireland.

The first year results of Courtauld Commitment 3 show that manufacturing and retail waste is on the rise, despite a voluntary target to reduce it by three per cent.

Northern Ireland has extended its five-pence carrier bag charge to include all new ‘cheap’ carrier bags, including reusable ones.

Falkirk Council has announced that it will roll out its three-weekly waste collection service to the last remaining 25,000 properties in March.