It’s EU Green Week 2017. This year the event is focusing on green jobs and the adaptation in skills training and education needed to aid the sector’s continued growth.

Former European Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik and Liberal Democrat environment spokesperson Baroness Parminter have been confirmed as the keynote speakers at June’s Resourcing the Future conference.

A 26-year-old man has been taken to hospital following an explosion at a battery recycling plant near Walsall.

The aluminium can recycling rate has hit 70 per cent in the UK, but Alupro has warned that government ambition could 'compromise' future performance.

South Northamptonshire Council has launched the ‘MetalMatters’ recycling campaign across the district to encourage residents to recycle more of their metal packaging.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has launched a Circular Fibres Initiative to investigate how a new global circular economy for textiles could be developed.

Retailer John Lewis has teamed up with The Furniture Recycling Group to make it easier for customers to recycle their old mattresses.

Twenty people were forced from their homes following damage caused by a blaze that started in an industrial container of recycled computer parts yesterday.

Parties should commit to developing a circular economy, with ten policy proposals key to a ‘transformational’ impact, says the Resource Association’s pre-election manifesto.

The world’s first international sustainable procurement guidelines have been published, offering advice for organisations on how to commit to more green and ethical procurement practices.