A group of UK charities has called on government to create an Office for Resource Risk to assess and manage resource insecurity.

With increasing recognition that recycling is about more than tonnages, Eunomia is focusing on carbon impacts with its second Carbon Index (accompanying this issue of Resource). Life Cycle Assessment Specialist Simon Hann explains

Local authority recycling services in England and Wales produced more carbon dioxide in 2012/13 than they did the year before.

House of Lords EU Committee calls on the EC, the UK government and retailers to take ‘urgent action’ to tackle food waste.

The second phase of the Courtauld Commitment saved £3.1 billion by reducing food and packaging waste, finds WRAP.

England’s recycling rate could be limited to 60 per cent as more residual waste facilities come on line, warns Eunomia.

Aluminium rolling and recycling company Novelis welcomes ‘significant progress’ in reducing carbon footprint.

Eunomia launches carbon index that ranks local authorities on the carbon impact of their waste management systems.

Achieving zero food waste to landfill by 2020 could save the UK over £17 billion a year, new ReFood report finds.

EU ‘largely on track’ to meet 2020 climate targets, but there is ‘mixed progress’ across member states, says EEA.