The European Commission should do more to promote the bioeconomy, the European Bioeconomy Alliance has announced at its official launch.

The waste and resources sector, including repair, reuse and leasing activities, contributes £41 billion to the UK economy, Defra has found.

WRAP has launched a new online ‘Recycling Locator’ that enables householders to find out what materials they can recycle and where they can recycle them.

The former Managing Director of Smurfit Kappa, Simon Weston, has been appointed as Director of Raw Materials at the Confederation of Paper Industries.

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.

The UK Green Investment Bank is launching a £50-million investment fund to support biomass projects.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Viridor, ACE UK, and a search for Croydon fly-tippers.

New Earth Solutions Group and sister company NEAT Technology Group Limited have been fined a total of £30,000 for safety failings following worker injury.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has released its first ‘Digest of Waste and Resource Statistics’ collating official UK waste statistics for ‘ease of use’.

As England’s landfill space nears capacity, many organisations are looking to turn old landfills into community spaces. Annie Kane finds out whether landfill restoration is really a walk in park