The London Borough of Ealing has agreed to move from weekly kerbside-sort recycling collections to fortnightly co-mingled collections in a bid to increase recycling and save money.

Bio-on S.p.A ready to license new technology for making bioplastics from glycerol.

Social Investment Scotland has awarded five Scottish social enterprises almost £156,000 raised through Asda’s five pence carrier bag charge.

The European Parliament Environment Committee has voted through a draft report on the circular economy, which calls on the European Commission to increase recycling targets to ‘at least’ 70 per cent.

Plastics 2020 and WRAP have launched the Plastics Industry Recycling Action Plan at the Plastics Recycling Expo in Telford.

The Plastics 2020 consortium has announced it will launch the Plastics Industry Recycling Action Plan (PIRAP) at the Plastics Recycling Expo (PRE) in Telford.

World Oceans Day 2015: Cosmetic industry pledges to remove microplastics from products to prevent harm to marine ecosystems.

Environmental charity Hubbub has launched ‘Neat Streets’, a project in London to find the most effective ways of combating littering and bringing about behaviour change.

The ‘world’s first’ ocean plastics clean-up system will be deployed next year off the coast of Tsushima Island in the Korea Strait.

Scottish Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead is meeting with his UK counterpart, Liz Truss, to discuss the potential of bringing in a deposit-return scheme for drinks packaging.