Closed Loop Recycling has announced the launch of its Recycling Champions initiative as part of Recycling Week 2014.

Government plans for England’s plastic bag charges have been heavily criticised again, following official government response to EAC report.

The first of three green chemistry complexes was opened in Sardinia yesterday (16 June) as part of biorefinery project, Matrica.

Coca-Cola Enterprises is re-launching its ‘Happiness Recycling’ scheme at festivals to ‘bring recycling to life’.

Closed Loop Environmental Solutions and Simply Waste Solutions are to launch a new paper cup recycling service on 1 August.

The winners of Generation Awake’s Young Designers Contest are exhibiting their works in Brussels as part of Green Week.

As the Queen announces that government will ‘reduce the use of plastic carrier bags’, industry calls for more bag charge details.

Department for Communities and Local Government Minister, Brandon Lewis MP, makes recycling blunder on national TV.

Scottish Parliament approves the Single Use Carrier Bags Charge (Scotland) Regulations 2014, which will begin in October.

SITA UK Chief Executive David Palmer-Jones tells the BBC that he thinks England’s recycling rate will drop to 40 per cent.