The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and the Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment (INCPEN) are working with packaging compliance company Valpak to update the PackFlow material reports in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Tyre particles could be an unreported source of microplastics transported to the oceans, a new study reports.

Pan-European recyclability initiative, RecyClass, announces collaboration with RECOUP, Suez and Plastship to certify plastic packaging recyclability.

The government has told local authorities that there will be no flexibility in the recyclable materials that they will be required to collect from households under collections consistency plans, but there may be room for manoeuvre on how those materials are collected.

Scientists from the Universities of Birmingham and Bath have published findings on a new chemical recycling method for plant-based bioplastics.

Behaviour change company Greenredeem has called on Defra to reconsider its plans to roll out a deposit return scheme (DRS) for single-use beverage containers and invest instead in convenient recycling solutions that create ‘sustained behaviour change’.

Weekly kerbside collections for recyclables and food waste will resume service from 1 June, Cardiff City Council has announced.

Resource management company Viridor has announced it will work with Spanish chemical recycler Plastic Energy to return up to 30,000 tonnes of end of life plastic waste to the economy each year.

The plastics export sector has urged the government to increase financial support for companies, amid concerns over the impact of Covid-19 on supply chain operations.

A ‘feeling of uncertainty’ is permeating the European plastics recycling industry owing to the impact of Covid-19 on the market, according to the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), with a mixed picture emerging for other recycling industries.