Aluminium recycling organisation Alupro warns that Scotland’s ‘all-in’ deposit return scheme could result in an extra 823 million plastic bottles being produced.

The leading trade association for the UK plastics industry has published a survey revealing that a majority of its members want to remain in the EU and believe that a no-deal Brexit will have a significant impact on their businesses.

The government’s ban on plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds is due to come into force in April 2020.

A trial to test Polytag’s new ‘tag and trace’ recycling technology has been launched today in Wirral.

A round-up of business news from the waste and resources sector, including Winnow, Collard Group, Novamont, ACE and WasteCare.

Thornton’s Budgens launches a plastic-free range of 200 products including refillable peanut butter, milk and orange juice.

Hubbub launches innovative on-the-go recycling bins and art installations on the streets of Edinburgh.

WasteAid’s Widening the Net appeal has raised over £168,000 to help stop plastic pollution in the Cameroon estuary and build a plastics recycling training centre.

An UNTHA XR3000C mobil-e shredder is helping a new waste plant to transform AD and blood plastics into a clean secondary material for remanufacturing.

Provisional packaging data for the third quarter of 2019 shows that all packaging materials remain on track to meet their 2019 recycling targets, with plastics and aluminium staging recoveries.