Recycling

Defra says changes to e-waste rules will ensure online suppliers pay 'fair share' towards costs of collection and recycling

Drinks giant announces 'evolved voluntary environmental goals', as campaigners warn move is 'short-sighted, irresponsible, and worthy of widespread condemnation'

Future Fibres Network Plus awards funding for eight new projects that aim to curb the environmental impact of the clothing and textiles industries

Attempts to deliver new global plastics treaty blocked by small group of petrostates, forcing negotiations to be extended into next year

Councils will be required to collect four separate waste and recycling streams from homes and businesses under policy changes unveiled today

Sustainability leaders also acknowledge the need to rethink globalisation

Company says customers will be able to easily return packaging using Royal Mail post boxes, helping to slash waste and carbon emissions in the process

We need to start thinking about reusable and refillable packaging as an engineering problem from the perspective of the user, rather than the supplier, writes Hubbub CEO Alex Robinson

Luxury carmaker teams up with Dow and Adient to develop 'closed loop' process for reusing polyurethane foam in its car seats

The UK is right to be moving ahead with a deposit return scheme (DRS) for drinks bottles as it will clean up our streets and boost recycling rates, writes Reloop's Jenni Hume