Three Cambridgeshire councils are now accepting mixed plastics for recycling, including yoghurt pots and margarine tubs

N.Ireland has released figures showing a six per cent drop in household waste and 5.2 per cent increase in household recycling.

Standards for packaging compostability are among measures taken to ensure that the Olympics are as sustainable as possible

Catherine Bearder, Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament for the South East of England, has announced that she has become a signatory of the Resource Association’s ‘End Destinations of Recycling’ Charter.

Local authorities are either paying reduced MRF gate fees, or are receiving payment for recovered materials, according to WRAP’s Gate Fees Report 2012, released today (9 July).

Hackney Council have announced that 64 per cent of all waste at the Radio 1 festival in June was recycled, surpassing earlier targets of 40 per cent.

Members of the public and manufacturers are being asked to nominate what they think is the Best Recycled Product at The European Association of Plastics Recycling & Recovery Organisations’s (Epro) awards

A new beverage carton recycling plant is to open in 2013, the Alliance for Beverage Cartons & the Environment (ACE) and Sonoco Alcore have announced.

The UK packaging industry is calling for the phrase ‘sustainable packaging’ to be scrapped, according to a new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) released today (25 June).

More than 80 UK organisations have joined a new forum to tackle the environmental footprint of everyday goods.