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Environmental groups express outrage at governments' failure to deliver an new treaty to tackle plastic pollution

Attempts to deliver new global plastics treaty blocked by small group of petrostates, forcing negotiations to be extended into next year

Councils will be required to collect four separate waste and recycling streams from homes and businesses under policy changes unveiled today

Sustainability leaders also acknowledge the need to rethink globalisation

The world cannot afford to waste this week's UN negotiations in Busan, writes DS Smith's group chief executive Miles Roberts

With just days to go until the curtain comes down on the fifth and final scheduled round of talks t try and deliver a legally-binding plastics pollution treaty, observers warn of scant sign of progress on key dividing lines

Replicating green finance schemes that are already up and running in Ireland, Belgium, and Germany could turbocharge demand for energy efficiency upgrades, the Green Finance Institute suggests

Company says customers will be able to easily return packaging using Royal Mail post boxes, helping to slash waste and carbon emissions in the process

We need to start thinking about reusable and refillable packaging as an engineering problem from the perspective of the user, rather than the supplier, writes Hubbub CEO Alex Robinson

New analysis reveals how 24 countries across Europe now have policies in place to support the roll out of industrial-scale heat pumps