Heathrow airport is joining the fight against disposable coffee cups with the announcement that it wants to recycle all cups sold on the premises by the end of the year.

The On-Pack Recycling Label Ltd, the not-for-profit enterprise that manages the on-pack recycling label scheme, has appointed Stuart Lendrum as its first Executive Director.

Procurement process begins to find new contractor to deliver Somerset’s ‘Recycle More’ model to the county’s 250,000 households.

The European award for circular economy startups and innovators has launched a call for applications for this year’s competition ahead of October’s Berlin final.

The Environmental Services Association has called for the UK and EU authorities to ensure the trade of waste materials continues with as little disruption as possible post-Brexit, in a joint statement with the Dutch Waste Management Association.

Costa has announced plans to recycle up to 500 million disposable coffee cups a year by 2020, the same amount used annually by its customers.

A ban on plastic straws, drinks stirrers and cotton buds could be in place in England next year after a consultation was announced by Theresa May today (19 April).

The government hopes to launch a new Environmental Protection Act, which will include legislation for a deposit return scheme, at the start of the next Parliamentary session, Environment Secretary Michael Gove has told MPs.

One of the final hurdles in ratifying new European circular economy legislation has been cleared as the European Parliament votes through the Circular Economy Package, fixing a 65 per cent recycling target for 2035.

reGAIN, the UK’s first app for the recycling of unwanted clothing, has been launched today (18 April) as research claims 73 per cent of consumers no longer wear up to half of the items of clothing they own.