Recycling

Jacques Playe unpacks how L’Oréal is mixing marketers, material science, consumer insights, and modelling software used by the aerospace industry to make its packaging more sustainable

WRAP claims tubes made from same material as milk bottles can now be recycled into garden furniture, plastic piping, and bleach bottles

Nationwide platform FareShare to join forces with London based The Felix Project in boost to efforts to tackle food waste across the UK

Initiative collects unwanted devices such as laptops and phones from businesses and distributes them to people in need across Coventry

Environmental Industries Commission calls for VAT to be scrapped on green building retrofits, as part of raft of proposals to embed circular principles into delivery of new homes, transport and energy projects

Charity calls for 'bolder circular economy pledges from governments, brands, and retailers to tackle on-going plastics pollution

MEPs vote in favour of new regulations and standards to curb waste from the food, textiles, and auto industries - but campaigners remain fearful of wider 'deregulation agenda'

Retailer adds teddy bears and soft toys to its growing repairs and alterations services

Medical tech firm launches partnership with Royal Mint in bid to turn e-waste into high value gold jewellery

Design is still too often seen as a tool for consumerism and disposability - but it is now a driver of the regenerative economy, writes Cat Drew from the Design Council