Consumer goods company Procter & Gamble is producing a limited run of recyclable shampoo bottles made from recycled beach plastic in what it says is ‘the first major step’ in establishing a supply chain taking in plastic waste collected from beaches by charities.

The Prince of Wales has voiced his support for bottle deposit schemes, after backing Sky’s Ocean Rescue campaign against marine plastic.

The Environment Agency and the Health and Safety Executive have joined forces in the North East to check waste sites are operating legally and safely.

MEPs have voted in favour of a 70 per cent recycling and reuse target for 2030, upping the goal proposed by the European Commission in its Circular Economy Package.

Members of the waste and resources industry have welcomed the mention of the industry in the government’s new industrial strategy, unveiled today by Prime Minister Theresa May.

Stakeholders have been told that the government expects the EU’s Circular Economy Package to apply to the UK, as the European Parliament convenes this week for a vote on the package’s legislation.

Trials of a technology to recycle medium-density fibreboard have proven successful, bringing commercially-viable recovery of the material one step closer, according to developers MDF Recovery.

Council leaders in Sheffield have voted to rip up the city’s waste management contract with Veolia 19 years early and reprocure its services in an attempt to secure a ‘new and improved’ arrangement.

Four of the UK’s largest supermarkets have had their say on actions needed to cut food waste, including transparency, targets, redistribution and labelling.

Unilever is to use biomethane supplied by GENeco to power five of its sites in the UK and Ireland as it moves towards a carbon positive future.