McDonald’s UK has teamed up with paper manufacturer James Cropper in a new trial aimed at recycling the chain’s previously non-recyclable paper cups.

A new coalition has been launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos to ‘inspire ambition and mobilise action’ to reduce food waste and loss globally.

Anglesey will decide on Monday whether to introduce three-weekly bin collections as a way of meeting ambitious Welsh recycling targets.

The Kent Resource Partnership has been awarded funding of over £110,000 to support its plastics and metals recycling communications.

A series of ‘re-fashion’ events will be taking place across London this month in an experiment to fight fashion waste and raise awareness about the carbon footprint of our clothing.

Better waste and resource management could keep global warming below two degrees Celsius, but its role has been underplayed in COP21 discussions, WRAP CEO Liz Goodwin said today.

A Scottish Government scheme that provides restaurants with ‘doggy bag’ boxes in an effort to cut down on food waste has launched in Inverness and the Highlands today.

A plastics economy based on a circular economy approach could ‘transform’ the plastics industry and ‘drastically reduce’ its environmental impact, according to a report by the World Economic Forum and Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

A new report published by the European Environment Agency draws attention to both the benefits and challenges in transitioning to a circular economy.

A Manchester waste plastic recycling firm has been made to pay £20,000 after an employee suffered ‘life changing injuries’ to his hand when it was dragged into a granulator machine.