Waste management firm SUEZ hopes to develop collections of complex and hard-to-recycle products across Europe after acquiring a 30 per cent stake in community collection programme TerraCycle.

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.

Waste created by students decamping from their halls has been addressed by a partnership between the University of St Andrews and The Furniture Recycling Group.

The Labour Party ‘will embrace the circular economy’ and become the ‘Party for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’, Shadow Environment Secretary Rachael Maskell told the party’s annual conference.

The ‘Circularety’ platform, developed by ecosurety, gives packaging producers the chance to invest their obligated payments in specific recycling projects.

Packaging compliance scheme Valpak has become the latest funding partner in the MetalMatters programme, a scheme to help councils boost the capture rates for metal packaging in kerbside recycling.

Philip Morton is to retire as CEO of compliance scheme REPIC at the end of the year, with former Viridor COO Mark Burrows-Smith taking his place.

The Swedish government has proposed offering tax breaks on repairs for items like bikes, clothing and dishwashers as a way of encouraging the efficient use of natural resources.

Scotland's circular economy ambitions and future relationship with the European Union are among the topics that will be covered at next month’s Scottish Resources Conference 2016.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a new head of the Wood Recyclers Association, plastic recycling at Fusion Festival and recycling rewards for a children's heart charity.