Waste

£125,000 awarded to 14 projects that are set to explore innovative approaches for tackling litter blight

Firm becomes latest supermarket to pledge to ensuring all packaging is widely recyclable, reusable, refillable or renewable

Supermarket promises to make all own-brand plastic packaging recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2022 and debuts new bags made from its own 'back of store' waste

Just Eat to trial option for customers to refuse plastic items, while Deliveroo promises to offer partner restaurants sustainable packaging alternatives

All of car manufacturer's factories in Canada, Mexico and South America now send zero waste to landfill in daily operations

Foreign and Commonwealth Office set to eliminate avoidable single-use plastics from its global operations by 2020

Environmental Audit Committee slams government for not committing to decisive action on deposit return schemes for plastic bottles and enhancing producer responsibility

Slight year-on-year uptick in household recycling welcomed by industry, but green groups highlight 'packaging waste mountain' revealed by latest Defra figures

Environment Secretary Michael Gove says government is exploring possibility of a full ban, just weeks after similar noises from Scottish government

Chair of Environmental Audit Committee Mary Creagh writes to Chancellor Philip Hammond to ask where is the government's promised call for evidence on proposed plastic tax?