Waste
Waste plastic as a fuel? Neste, ReNew and Licella launch joint effort
Three companies team up to develop waste plastics as a raw material for making fuels, chemicals and new plastics
Sanitary bins could come to men's toilets in war on wet wipes
London Assembly call for bins to be placed in men's toilets so items that could cause blockages are not flushed away
Study: Switzerland emerges as most 'deluded' country over waste levels
Study of 18,000 households around the world finds major gap between how much waste consumers think they generate, and how much food, clothing and possessions are actually going to waste
What's the value of a clean beach? Here's how economists do the numbers
How much would you pay to clean up your favourite beach?
AccorHotels food waste drive sees 26 UK hotels gain onsite veg gardens
Around 600 of company's hotels around the world now grow their own produce on site for use in its restaurants and bars as part of food waste drive
Tackling food waste: Lidl launches cut price veg boxes for £1.50
Trial sees 5kg boxes of damaged and wonky vegetables sold to public at cut-price, in effort to reduce food waste
Councils call for ban on 'smorgasbord' of low grade plastics to boost recycling
Local Government Association urges manufacturers to stop using non-recyclable plastic in packaging
Kraft Heinz pledges to slash packaging waste, as PepsiCo beefs up US recycling campaign
US food and drink giants step up efforts to boost recycling rates and tackle packaging waste, as Kraft Heinz joins Science Based Targets Initiative
Plastic bag sales plummet 86 per cent
Michael Gove: 'It is only by working together we will reverse the rising tide of plastic waste finding its way into our rivers, seas and oceans'
As far as waste is concerned, bioplastics are still plastics
In the rush to find new solutions to our plastic crisis, we must not swap one problem for another, writes ClientEarth wildlife lawyer Tatiana Lujan
Gone plastic fishing: Starbucks 'Latte Levy' to fund Thames clean up boat
Hubbub reveals plans to use funding from Starbucks disposable cup charge to launch second 'plastic fishing' boat made from recycled plastic
'World first': Canary Wharf set to become 'Plastic Free' community
Docklands development joins Surfers Against Sewage campaign as the world's first commercial centre to set a 'plastic free' goal
How should businesses tackle risks posed by the shift away from plastics?
Companies face a raft of transition, reputational, physical, and liability risks from the consumer and economic shift away from single use plastics, ClientEarth report warns
UK theme parks to offer half-price entry in exchange for used plastic bottles
Legoland and Thorpe Park among the attractions that have joined Coca-Cola in a trial offering instant incentives for recycling
Marriott set to save one billion plastic straws a year
Hotel giant to phase out the use of plastic straws within weeks
'World first': Just Eat to trial seaweed-based compostable ketchup packaging
Takeaway giant's drive to cut plastic waste continues with trial of compostable condiment packaging
'Not sufficiently robust': Public spending watchdog warns of packaging recycling fraud risk
National Audit Office warns potential fraud and errors could be undermining the UK's packing recycling figures
Closed Loop launches Circulate Capital to take on ocean plastics in Asia
Can $150m jump start putting plastic waste back into productive use?
One-third of UK supermarket plastic is not easily recyclable, analysis shows
Morrisons leads league table of supermarkets analysed for the proportion of their packaging that can be recycled
Pret promises switch to compostable cutlery
Company announces it will introduce compostable cutlery across all its UK stores next year
IKEA sets October 2018 deadline for plastic straw ban
All single-use plastic straws will be removed from UK and Ireland stores by October as part of flatpack giant's push to eliminate single-use plastics across its operations by 2020
Plastics and polymers and resins, oh my!
With the short primer you, too, can confidently tackle plastic-related jargon
Morrisons trials plastic bottle return machines with offer of reward points or charity donation
Supermarket has introduced plastic bottle deposit return vending machines at two of its stores in North Yorkshire and Scotland
Le Pain Quotidien to switch from plastic to paper straws across all restaurants
Global bakery chain to swap plastic for paper straws across all 220 of its branches worldwide as the war on plastic waste continues
