UK supermarket Tesco is set to trial new recycled food-grade soft plastic packaging on a range of cheeses in its stores this week, the first time that soft plastic packaging has been recycled into safe food-grade packaging.

Resource spoke to Anna Queralt Fuentes, Engagement Manager at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF), about the newly released Circular Design Toolkit and the wider implications of circular design.

The 2021 Student Starpack Awards are set to focus on the benefits of using aluminium in packaging after announcing aluminium recycling organisation Alupro as its latest sponsor.

Eunomia Research and Consulting has announced that it will be providing technical support to Zero Waste Scotland and the National Bed Federation (NBF) on a project to assess extended producer responsibility (EPR) approach to improve mattress circularity in Scotland.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has launched a toolkit to assist manufacturers and designers in developing products with a minimal environmental impact.

The National Bed Federation (NBF) has released an ecodesign guide to ensure the best possible design and sustainability outcome for beds and mattresses.

Planning permission is in place for a five-storey ‘living wall’ made from recycled drinks cans on the banks of London’s River Thames.

The Covid-19 pandemic has raised urgent questions about public health and hygiene in almost every sector of society, with packaging no exception. With consumers and retailers turning back to single-use for hygiene reasons, what does the future hold for reusables? Olivia Rutherford investigates.

Two new river plastic capture devices have been installed in Thailand by the TerraCycle Thai Foundation in a bid to clean up Thailand’s waterways.

Fibre-based packaging company DS Smith has developed hygienic boxes to provide essential provisions and vital medications to those practicing social distancing or self-isolating during the Covid-19 outbreak.