Waste

'Long Live Fashion Formula' to promote how a lower impact laundry regime can save millions of tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions

Government kicks off first round of funding competition designed to help tackle social challenges

Supermarket giant reports solid progress against emissions goals, but there is less encouraging news on food waste

All England Lawn Tennis Club joins war on plastic waste with straw ban and new paper bags

Unilever and Waitrose amongst corporate names supporting new Marine Plastics Research and Innovation Framework

Residents in Derbyshire pilot town cut waste by only nine per cent despite free gadgets and tools

Thérèse Coffey to announce £200,000 of funding to support work to explore impact of micro plastic threads from clothes and tyres on marine habitats

Company's UK and Ireland restaurants, bars, and cafes to end use of plastic straws from June - and there's even a cocktail to mark the occasion

Liontrust's Neil Brown looks at global efforts to address plastic pollution and highlights companies driving innovation in packaging, sustainable plastics and recycling

Packaging giant reveals it hopes to have new straw for drinks cartons available by the end of the year