Recycling

Switchover will cost bottlers and the Coca-Cola distribution network about $52m across the US and Canada, but it will reduce the weight of bottles and slash emissions

Shellworks' founder and CEO discusses environmental start-ups' 'blessed position' and the importance of failure in building new sustainability-focused markets

Partnership with Podback scheme will allow customers to drop off used coffee pods in store for recycling

Recycling tech firm Polytag launches scheme to track plastic packaging with M&S as founding partner

Second-hand marketplace announces click-to-resell feature allowing buyers to quickly list unwanted items from partner brands

Retailer announces new car boot events at Cardiff, Exeter, and Milton Keynes stores in May following successful pilot

Charity invites innovators with creative solutions to curbing food waste to apply for second Eat It Up Fund

New plan to boost recycling rates would see all councils able to collect most dry materials in just one bin and mix garden and food waste together

Rules requiring packaging producers to pay more towards the cost of recycling are to be brought before Parliament 'later this year'

Latest round of UN talks to finalise treaty to end plastic pollution worldwide draw to a close in Ottawa with pockets of progress but much still to play for