The Advisory Committee on Packaging (ACP) has gained three new members representing the retail, glass and waste management sectors, including SUEZ UK’s Technical Director Stuart Hayward-Higham.

Packaging company DS Smith believes it can recycle all the UK’s coffee cup waste, which amounts to 2.5 billion cups, at its paper mill in Kent.

Dutch social enterprise Circle Economy has launched a new online crowdsourcing platform to pull together new circular solutions to global challenges.

The Wood Recyclers’ Association (WRA) has elected wood recycler Jamie Plevin of R Plevin & Sons to its executive board.

Defra’s proposed collection target for WEEE in 2018 is  lower than the missed 2017 target, triggering dismay from the industry.

Wales could be set to target an 80 per cent municipal waste recycling rate by 2035, according to Welsh Minister for Environment Hannah Blythyn at the CIWM Resource Conference Cymru yesterday (14 March).

A woman has died from injuries suffered after being hit by a skip lorry on Watford High Street just before 1.10pm yesterday.

The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has criticised the government’s management and sale of the Green Investment Bank, saying it ‘failed to live up to’ its green objectives.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s announcement of a consultation on how the tax system can be used to reduce the consumption of single-use plastics has received widespread acclaim from the waste and resources industry following the Spring Statement yesterday (13 March).

The River Tame, which flows through the Greater Manchester area was found by geographers at the University of Manchester to have a microplastics concentration of 517,000 particles per square metre.