The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has urged the government to accelerate the transition to a circular economy as part of a Covid-19 recovery plan that prioritises the climate crisis, reiterating its call for a ban on biodegradable waste to landfill by 2025.

The risk posed to the waste and resources sector by Brexit has increased over the last few months, with the UK falling further behind EU standards and ambition, according to Greener UK’s latest Brexit Risk Tracker.

A dedicated biomethane gas filling station will open at the John Lewis Partnership’s head office in Bracknell later this year, the company has announced today (18 June).

A new guide outlining practical steps for running a sustainable food business has been released by the London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB).

BBIA Managing Director David Newman looks at how Italy’s new EPR scheme for compostable packaging will work and what lessons it can provide the UK as it revises its packaging EPR system.

The government has told local authorities that there will be no flexibility in the recyclable materials that they will be required to collect from households under collections consistency plans, but there may be room for manoeuvre on how those materials are collected.

The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has been awarded $826,000 (£673,950) scale-up funding to “supercharge” action on global food loss.

Weekly kerbside collections for recyclables and food waste will resume service from 1 June, Cardiff City Council has announced.

Vegware, a compostable packaging company, has published interactive guidance to assist caterers get “back to business” and adapt to the socially distanced catering brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Almost half of councils have plans to reopen their Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) within the next two weeks, according to the latest Covid-19 local authority impacts survey, while recycling collections have experienced a slight increase in disruption.