Recovery

The UK Government should set a municipal recycling target of 65 per cent and establish separate food waste collection for households and businesses by 2025 to provide a low-carbon future for the UK, according to the National Infrastructure Assessment.

A new report from the OECD has urged governments to get serious about the issues of free-riding by online retailers of electronics who don’t adhere to waste compliance obligations.

The EU’s Circular Economy Package (CEP) has been published in the EU’s Official Journal, meaning the legislation will enter into force at the start of July, 20 days after its publication.

A new app, developed in partnership with Stuffstr, will enable customers to sell their clothes back to John Lewis to be reused or recycled.

From marine litter and the UK Plastics Pact to China’s waste ban and the future of waste and resources strategy, here are some of our key moments from a busy two days of discussion and debate at CIWM’s Resourcing the Future conference.

The refuse derived fuel Industry Group has called for urgent action from the UK Government and the EU to ensure that the export of RDF from the UK to Europe will continue unhindered after Brexit.

The latest collation of waste and resource statistics has been published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), bringing all the UK’s published data on the sector into one place.

Scotland has boosted its recycling rate above 60 per cent for the first time, according to new figures from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) released on 29 May.

The Resourcing the Future 2018 conference is little under a month away, providing the opportunity to join stakeholders from across the resources and waste supply chain to discuss the industry's hot topics.