Waste

Therese Coffey claims 5p charge is not warranted as industry and chains are already doing enough voluntarily to reduce waste

Increasingly popular meal-in-a-kit boxes could offer big food waste savings, but are these benefits negated by the huge quantities of packaging required?

Letter to trading standards body calls for manufacturers to remove 'misleading' labelling to prevent wipes from blocking sewers and washing up on beaches

Logs made from recycled coffee are now available for Londoners to buy and burn in their own home as lower carbon alternative to wood

Pumpkin food waste from last Halloween could have made enough soup for everyone in the country

The broadcaster last week labelled a trial to tackle woeful coffee recycling rates as corporate 'greenwash' - such criticism is both unfair and counterproductive

EnCO2re programme now looking for industrial partners to scale up race to use CO2 as a feedstock in plastic manufacturing

Almost half of all plastic bottles used in the home end up in landfill sites, research shows, with huge impacts on marine life

Duo will start by building a 15MW plant in Cardiff, but see further opportunities to build 'thousands' of smaller plants serving industrial businesses

New guidelines also explain how some recycled items need to be disposed of in certain ways