The British public has not changed its behaviour towards single-use plastic, and action is needed to make tap water more accessible, says a report by YouGov for BRITA and Keep Britain Tidy.

Ward has opened a new dedicated deep sea export dock facility at Associated British Ports in Immingham, to further expand its metal export business.

The Prime Minister has pledged £61.4 million to tackle marine plastic pollution through a global alliance of Commonwealth states.

Waste management company Veolia has launched a new BioTrading website allowing businesses access to an online marketplace to buy and sell organics resources.

Fashion retail giant H&M has revealed that 35 per cent of the materials used by the company in 2017 were recycled or sustainably-sourced materials in its new Sustainability Report 2017.

A new report from Friends of the Earth Europe and Zero Waste Europe argues that food packaging is not helping to prevent food waste and could in fact be creating more.

Three Northern Irish businesses have helped raise £16,000 for charity thanks to a unique recycling initiative run by Bryson Recycling.

Barking Riverside London, a new housing development on the River Thames, will soon boast an Envac automated underground bin system, the UK’s largest, when it launches in 2019.

Waste management company Mick George Ltd has secured an agreement with Cambridgeshire Constabulary as it adds another emergency service authority to its list of commercial waste clients.

In a bid to cut waste and pollution, UK supermarket Waitrose has announced plans to scrap disposable coffee cups from all its stores, which it says will save 52 million cups from being thrown away every year.