Composite materials like fibreglass are strong, durable and light. The trouble is, they’re not very easy to handle at their end of life.

Costa Coffee is launching a nationwide recycling scheme to recover and recycle more of its takeaway cups, but only those that have been left in stores.

Bristol City Council has launched a campaign in a bid to make Bristol measurably cleaner by 2020, in partnership with its arms-length Bristol Waste Company.

Europe has reached a ‘turning point’ in the ‘absurd unethical and anti-economic situation’ of food waste, according to Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis.

The new Chairman of the Environmental Services Association, a trade association representing the UK’s resource and waste management industry, outlined his priorities for the association at its annual lunch for members and stakeholders.

A round up of news from the waste and resources sector including new bins for Croydon, global growth in the AD industry, investment in the European paper industry and more.

The German city of Freiburg is pioneering the new ‘Freiburg Cup’, a reusable coffee cup, to reduce single-use takeaway waste.

The London Waste and Recycling Board has launched Advance London, a business support programme to help SMEs make the most of the benefits of the circular economy.

Engineering firm Arup has created the world’s first ‘Circular Building’, an experiment in circular economy thinking.

Following a flurry of media disparagement around the 2014/15 stats onlocal authority recycling rejects, we analyse England’s recycling data to truly understand the figures.