United Biscuits and TerraCycle have announced the launch of the UK’s first biscuit wrapper recycling scheme

Better food packaging is helping consumers waste less food, says a new WRAP survey

The Institute of Packaging Professionals has announced that it shall be forming a new branch in the UK, the first it has opened outside of the US.

Three major household foil suppliers have announced that they have joined the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) and its recycling programme, MetalMatters

Metal bin manufacturer, Taylor, has signed a £50k contract with the City of London Corporation to provide some of the city’s largest estates with a new waste management system.

PET recycler ECO Plastics has opened an extension to their bottle recycling facility in Hemswell, Lincolnshire, making it the world’s largest plastics processing facility of its kind.

Data published on the Environment Agency’s National Packaging Waste Database shows that between January and March 2012, only 1.72 million tonnes of waste was recovered or recycled compared with 1.80 million tonnes during the same period the year before.

Smurfit Kappa Cor-Trade, wholesale suppliers of corrugated packaging and corrugated sheet, recently carried out a sustainability survey that was directed solely at their UK customer base.

In collaboration with local authorities, manufacturers and retailers, the Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment (INCPEN) is publishing a guide for packaging in the Internet age.

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