Waste
Kelloggs and General Mills commit to halving food loss and waste by 2030
Fifteen major firms join US government initiative to cut food waste by 50 per cent
Sainsbury's beefs up food waste campaign with £1m communities fund
Supermarket launches fund to roll out food waste reduction initiatives trialed in food waste pioneer town of Swadlincote
Ministers reject calls for charge on UK's disposable coffee cups
Therese Coffey claims 5p charge is not warranted as industry and chains are already doing enough voluntarily to reduce waste
Could recipe boxes offer a helping hand to food waste efforts?
Increasingly popular meal-in-a-kit boxes could offer big food waste savings, but are these benefits negated by the huge quantities of packaging required?
UK water firms call for 'do not flush' labelling on wet wipes
Letter to trading standards body calls for manufacturers to remove 'misleading' labelling to prevent wipes from blocking sewers and washing up on beaches
Turn 'frightful' horror story of pumpkin food waste into cooking opportunity, urge campaigners
Pumpkin food waste from last Halloween could have made enough soup for everyone in the country
Bio-bean launches coffee logs to heat London homes
Logs made from recycled coffee are now available for Londoners to buy and burn in their own home as lower carbon alternative to wood
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall should wake up and smell the coffee, corporate trials are not always 'greenwash'
The broadcaster last week labelled a trial to tackle woeful coffee recycling rates as corporate 'greenwash' - such criticism is both unfair and counterproductive
Commercial CO2 re-use a step closer as innovation program seeks industrial partners
EnCO2re programme now looking for industrial partners to scale up race to use CO2 as a feedstock in plastic manufacturing
British households fail to recycle a 'staggering' 16 million plastic bottles a day
Almost half of all plastic bottles used in the home end up in landfill sites, research shows, with huge impacts on marine life
CoGen and Lockheed Martin team up in pursuit of waste-to-energy building spree
Duo will start by building a 15MW plant in Cardiff, but see further opportunities to build 'thousands' of smaller plants serving industrial businesses
National Recycling guidelines set out 'definitive' list of what can and cannot be recycled
New guidelines also explain how some recycled items need to be disposed of in certain ways
Giant coffee cup bins campaign to descend on Manchester
Campaign from environmental charity Hubbub will see coffee cup-shaped bins collect cups for recycling
Give Coffee Cups #1MoreShot
A challenge has been laid down to the coffee shop industry, Hubbub's Trewin Restorick reveals how it is today looking to respond with a bold new coffee cup recycling experiment
Local authorities could save £300m a year in litter costs if producers footed the bill, says ESA
Waste management industry body lays out benefits of producer responsibility levies for local authorities
Environment Agency shelves waste reuse advisory service
Definition of Waste Panel suspended for three months following budget cuts
Suez teams up with TerraCycle to tackle hard-to-recycle waste
French utility acquires 30 per cent of TerraCycle's activities in Europe as part of efforts to tackle waste that is not recyclable through traditional channels
Green Investment Bank backs £142m Scottish energy-from-waste plant
Construction to start at 14.1MW Edinburgh facility after investment secured and waste disposal contract signed
Are our crumbling cooking skills fuelling the food waste mountain?
What can be done to help families cut food waste which would save the average UK family £60 a month and have a positive environmental impact?
Tesco slashes plastic bag numbers by 1.5 billion in 12 months
5p charge has delivered a dramatic drop in the number of single use plastic bags handed out by the supermarket
UK's billions of takeaway cups could each take '30 years' to break down
Campaigners call for use of eco-friendly options and tax on paper and plastic takeaway cups as most are not recyclable
Just one in 10 English shoppers now use single-use plastic bags
New study finds nearly all shoppers now routinely use their own bags
Going round in circles: Arup opens doors to pioneering 'circular building'
Engineering firm's latest pilot project promises to enable full recovery of a building's components at end of life
Wessex Water declares war on wet wipes
Company to lodge complaint with Advertising Standards Authority over claims that wipes are 'flushable'
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