A round up of news from the waste and resources sector including new bins for Croydon, global growth in the AD industry, investment in the European paper industry and more.

The German city of Freiburg is pioneering the new ‘Freiburg Cup’, a reusable coffee cup, to reduce single-use takeaway waste.

Engineering firm Arup has created the world’s first ‘Circular Building’, an experiment in circular economy thinking.

Investigating the modern phenomenon of lightweighting glass and discovering just how low glass could go.

British fashion designer Stella McCartney says the fashion industry is “getting away with murder” through its failure to switch to more sustainable models.

The European Commission has promised action to make products more durable, repairable, and recyclable as a new study shows just how smart design can transform products.

Bayern Munich and Real Madrid will be taking to the pitch in kits made of recycled ocean plastic as part of Adidas’s partnership with the Parley for the Oceans charity.

The government has once again ruled out the possibility of imposing a 5p charge on disposable coffee cups handed out at high street retailers after calls by the Liberal Democrats.

Celebrity chef and waste campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has accused brands of ‘greenwashing’ responses to the burning issue of coffee cup waste, criticising in particular a campaign to increase high street recycling of takeaway cups.

Apps targeting food and DIY waste and a CO2–absorbing urban tree are among the innovations chosen as finalists for this year’s Green Alley Award.