Waste
Could an 'eBay for food waste' save businesses up to £1bn a year?
Takestock calls for food manufacturers to realise financial and environmental benefits that come from tackling waste mountain
Scottish government celebrates opening of 100th Re-use Store
Zero Waste Scotland says re-use centres and new online service are helping to ensure usable materials are diverted form landfill
Tesco to scrap 5p single-use plastic bags
Retailer to stop offering single-use plastic bags, instead selling only 10p 'Bags for Life' made from 94 per cent recycled plastic
Is the UK building too many waste treatment plants?
The waste industry is near-unanimous that UK will continue to lack requisite capacity to turn household rubbish into energy, but one consultancy is convinced the opposite is the case
Report: Government could cut marine plastic pollution by two thirds
New study from Green Alliance calculates that a series of policy measures could build on microbeads ban and slash marine plastic waste
England cricketers aim to help Sky hit plastic waste for six
Broadcaster to promote refillable bottles in a bid to tackle ocean plastic crisis and make the Oval a 'plastic-free venue'
Coffee cups come back to life to make Manchester's gardens greener
Hubbub's Trewin Restorick reflects on a year spent battling coffee cup waste
Waitrose warns a quarter of Brits are throwing out food every day
Supermarket launches fresh campaign to encourage people to tackle food waste and address the £364 the average household throws out each year
WRAP: More sustainable resource use could net electricals sector £4.4bn
Report by UK waste body finds 14 million tonnes of CO2 savings potential if more circular business models adopted within electrical and electronic equipment sector
Coca-Cola unwraps new sustainable packaging strategy
Coca-Cola European Partners reveals new plan to double the use of recycled plastic in all its bottles by 2020 and trial 'incentive-based' recycling schemes
Green fashion leaders strip carbon, water and waste from operations
Members of the Sustainable Clothing Action Plan report positive progress on attempts to give fashion industry a green makeover
The circular economy: Great on paper, but can it be made to work in practice?
The circular economy presents infrastructure firms with significant challenges, but, as Robert Spencer argues, there are new approaches available that will boost resource efficiency
Boozy biofuel hits the road in whisky-powered world-first
Scottish company claims world first as biofuel made with whisky residue powers car on five-mile drive
Hamming it up? Sainsbury's debuts colour-changing 'smart' packaging
Innovative new packaging aims to tackle the £170m of ham that is thrown away each year
Smart city technologies face some big, messy challenges
The 'artists impressions' are inspiring, argues Matthew Farrow, but the reality of smart city developments can be very different
IKEA dishes up smart tech-enabled drive to halve food waste
Food is Precious initiative aims to use smart technologies to slash food waste across the company's 400 stores
Phoenix launches a hub for the circular economy
US city launches wide-ranging circular economy drive
Let's end the economists' stranglehold on sustainability
We need a better understanding of the circular economy, argues Professor Roland Clift, and chemical engineers might hold the answer
iMend: Repairing technology can help the planet as well as your business' bottom line
To tackle the growing e-waste challenge we need to start thinking differently about technology
Tesco to trial a phase-out of single-use 5p plastic bags
Select Tesco stores will sell only reusable bags in a 10-week trial that could lead to the single-use bags being phased out in all of its stores
Lucozade and Pringles named packaging 'villains' of recycling world
Recycling Association lists everyday products which are hardest to recycle due to complexity of their packaging
Less than 1% of surplus food from farms and manufacturers used to feed hungry
A tiny proportion of excess food is being sent to charities and is instead ending up in landfill or left to rot, figures show
The UK's recycling industry needs to be more transparent
Hubbub's Trewin Restorick fears successful recycling campaigns could be stifled by a failure of the industry to be clear about where recycled material ends up
Circular Economy: From PV Module to Rubber Sole
To mark International Recycling Day, Andreas Wade of First Solar reveals how the industry is taking steps to tackle solar panels' end-of-life footprint
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