Eight per cent of a product's environmental impact is determined during its design, so here are three examples of products doing things the right way and desinging out waste.

Nottingham, Haringey, Sutton and Kettering have all rolled out a Charity Bin scheme this month as part of the second phase of testing of Keep Britain Tidy’s Bin it for Good initiative, which decreased litter in five out of seven trial areas last year.

Sainsbury’s has for the first time published data for its nationwide food waste generation, revealing that the supermarket cut its food waste by 10 per cent last year.

ISWA has published a roadmap for closing the world’s biggest dumpsites, a ‘global health emergency’ accounting for around 40 per cent of the world’s waste and presenting severe health risks to the four billion people that use them.

To challenge the nation’s chewing gum etiquette, the Chewing Gum Action Group last week transformed a corner of Hackney into a ‘Litter Lounge’ – proving that the heart (of the city) is where the home is.

Scotland's circular economy ambitions and future relationship with the European Union are among the topics that will be covered at next month’s Scottish Resources Conference 2016.

A ban on disposable plastic utensils from 2020 established by the French Government last month has been criticised by a trade association for breaching EU trade laws.

The Great British Beach Clean, an initiative introduced by the Marine Conservation Society, will take place this weekend as thousands of volunteers head to the seaside to clean it up through the removal of litter – potentially sustaining a soggy bottom or two along the way.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a successful food waste campaign in Surrey, a takeover for Helistrat and more.

With the packaging industry recently promoting itself as a key part in the circular economy answer, the European Environmental Bureau’s Piotr Barczak argues that single-use packaging is not the way to avoid Europe producing waste.