Recycling

Retailer targets bread bags, crisp packets, cling film, and food pouches with aim to recycle 1,000 tonnes of soft plastics a year

The findings suggest an urgent need to ramp up efforts to meet UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3, which aims to halve global food waste by 2030

Following roll out in the US and Australia, new hub debuts in UK in response to soaring lockdown demand for refurbished items

Challenges caused by EV battery production 'pale in comparison' to environmental toll of fossil fuel vehicles, Transport & Environment study finds

Could the planet-littering plastic bag be on the way out?

The UK waste sector can be an enabler of wider economic decarbonisation while delivering the government's 'levelling up' agenda, writes Viridor's Tim Rotheray

Environmental Audit Committee inquiry to look at potential design for government's aim to implement a deposit return scheme in England in 2023

Facility planned in Chile's Antofagasta region will scale up technology from Swedish recycling firm Enviro

Veolia is partnering with Carbon Clean to trial a new carbon capture technology, while a separate £300m energy-from-waste facility in Teesside was this week granted planning permission

Two competitions launched by the government agency are geared at supporting firms that can help the the UK meet its 2025 Plastics Pact targets