Recycling

COP29 negotiations, US biochar deals, and Indonesian recycling plants all feature in this week's round up of green business stories from around the world

Petroleum-based fibres are spiralling out of control as Zara, Calvin Klein, and other brands pay little regard to the harm they cause, the Changing Markets Foundation finds

Second hand clothes may have gone mainstream - but we still have a long way to go to fix our textile waste problem, writes Baroness Jenkin of Kennington

Retail giant's shock-proof, lightweight paper envelope that is designed to be easily recyclable arrives in the UK

Parent company Big Table partners with GreaseTech and Eco Clarity to trial tech converting commercial kitchen grease into biofuel

Mary Creagh says government has begun appointing industry, academic, and civil society groups to new Circular Economy Taskforce to help design fresh policy regime for waste, recycling, and reuse in the UK

Civic Engineers' Simon Bennett unpacks the role of 'urban mining' in cutting carbon emissions from a £130m department store revamp

A Healthier Earth and PYREG announce new facility capable of producing enough biochar to capture and store 17,000 tonnes of CO2 a year

US apparel company becomes latest brand to sign up to forest protection initiative from Canopy

Activists call on consumer goods giant to rapidly phase out single-use plastic, starting with sachets that are blamed for driving plastic pollution in developing countries