Applications for scheme administrator close next week, as guidance sets out detailed implementation plans for retailers, hospitality venues and collection points

Partnership between retailer and Podback will allow customers to return used pods through toYou parcel returns service

Cardiff Council expands its ‘sack sort’ scheme to 36,000 households in an effort to meet the Welsh Government’s recycling targets

Alliance to End Plastic Waste guide identifies methods and supporting processes to create marketable products from problematic waste streams

New roadmap outlines priority actions across waste reduction, recycling modernisation, and disposal to deliver circular economy legislation

Material Focus study shows that vape use continues to rise, with the government’s disposable vape ban unlikely to prevent increasing environmental damage

RECOUP survey reveals 312 councils must add film and flexible plastic collections within two years if current Government requirement is to be met

Defra stakeholder briefing sets out universal food waste separation requirement and streamlined approach to written assessments for exemptions to separately collect paper and card

Tetra Pak and Yellow Dreams announce new Ittervoort plant set to open in late 2025, handling waste from Belgium, the Netherlands, and parts of Germany

David Gudgeon, Head of External Affairs at Reconomy, outlines the current limits and future opportunities to push UK recycling towards a circular system