Shoppers will be given a simpler, more consistent range of storage and date advice on food packaging after new WRAP guidance presented a new industry standard for date labelling and storage advice used by food manufacturers and retailers.

Thatchers Cider has contracted Middleton Engineering to install a baler system at its Somerset base to deal with waste at source.

The government’s Industrial Strategy white paper has been welcomed by the waste and resources industry along with calls for collaboration going forward.

European waste management firm SUEZ has signed a joint venture agreement with plastics manufacturer LyondellBasell that will see ‘high-quality circular polymers’ created for packaging from plastic waste from across Europe.

The government wants to position the UK as a world leader in maximising the value we extract from our resources, strengthening the market for secondary materials and moving towards a more circular economy, its new Industrial Strategy has said.

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The waste and resources industry has issued a cautiously positive response to the Autumn Budget, which included a call for evidence on a single-use plastics tax and extra funding for the Environment Agency to tackle waste crime.

Chancellor Philip Hammond has launched a call for evidence for a single-use plastics tax and committed an extra £30 million to the Environment Agency to tackle waste crime in his Autumn Budget Statement.

Finnish start-up Sulapac has won the 2017 Green Alley Award for its innovative alternative packaging for cosmetics products.

The Chancellor is set to introduce a call for evidence regarding a potential tax on the use of single-use plastics in order to reduce the flow of plastic pollution into the oceans.