Waste

Partners join forces to tackle beauty industry's hard-to-recycle waste for Great British Beauty Clean Up 2026

Award-winning industrial designer Jo Barnard tells BusinessGreen why product design is 'all about people' and how the planet can no longer be an afterthought

Larry Kotch, chief operating officer at Flybox, explains how the company is converting food waste into insect protein and fertiliser

Trewin Restorick's new start-up Treasure Gardening is delivering truly sustainable peat-free compost, but has found itself facing delays to promised policies and the entrenched power of unsustainable incumbents

Six months after the ban on disposable vapes came into force, waste companies warn behaviour has not changed with consumers continuing to discard vapes that lead to fires, lost resources, and millions of pounds of damage

New report from Material Focus reveals number of electrical devices being recycled has risen by 30 million, but nearly 900 million are still being held unused in UK homes

Retailer's value chain emissions have fallen by almost six per cent against its 2019 baseline, latest stocktake reveals

Chancellor moves to prevent gap between two rates of Landfill tax getting any wider, rather than creating single rate

Coat Paints' founder and CEO reflects on rolling out a 'made to order' model that aims to reduce waste and emissions in an industry 'still operating like it was 1950'

Legislation enabling ban on plastic wet wipes comes into force, as government urges consumers to 'bin not flush' all kinds of wet wipe