Environment Secretary Michael Gove has launched a call for evidence on how reward and return schemes for beverage containers in England could help to tackle the nation’s littering problem.

The UK’s waste and resources sector has been upgraded to a ‘high risk’ environmental policy area on Greener UK’s Brexit Risk Tracker, as Defra admits that the UK is likely to miss 2020 recycling targets.

The extent of the incredible change in technology and how it is recycled in the 10 years since UK WEEE regulations were introduced, has been detailed by the European Recycling Platform.

Waste associations have written to Resources Minister Therese Coffey calling on Defra to "take urgent action" to support the recycling industry following China’s ban on the import of all scrap plastics and unsorted waste paper.

WRAP has begun working with farmers and growers to improve forecasting and maximise crop utilisation after the organisation found that some growers lose almost half of their lettuce crops to waste.

An underground bin system in Cambridge’s new district of Eddington has entered operation - the largest of its kind in the UK.

Supermarket chain Costcutter has made a donation of £650,000 to resource efficiency charity WRAP as part of a set of enforcement undertakings announced by the Environment Agency.

Prevention and recycling must underpin the EU’s plastics strategy to reduce marine plastics pollution, according to EU Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella.

Resource talks to Entomics co-founder Matt McLaren about the origins of the Cambridge-based start-up’s insect-derived protein product it hopes will provide another solution to the world’s growing food waste problem.

JD Wetherspoon has promised to remove single use plastic straws from all its pubs by the end of 2017, becoming the latest bar chain to move towards more sustainable drinking.