Professor Edward Kosior, Managing Director of Nextek, argues the importance of shifting industry focus onto how sorted waste can be properly re-used.

Supermarket chain Tesco will be collaborating with food sharing app OLIO to combat excess food waste and redistribute free meals throughout the UK.

Developing sustainable fabrics, boosting textile recycling and bringing textile manufacturing jobs back to the UK are some of the key recommendations put forward in a new parliamentary report compiled by behaviour change charity Hubbub on sustainable fashion.

Behaviour change charity Hubbub has launched its Greenprint for a Better Britain plan to call for a sustainable Covid-19 recovery with policy recommendations targeting food waste, transport, textiles and recycling.

UK supermarket Tesco has teamed up with behaviour change charity to launch its ‘No Time for Waste Challenge’, which will target the 6.6 million tonnes of food waste generated by UK households each year.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Plastics Pact network has expanded into the US, with a new national Plastics Pact launching on Tuesday (25 August).

Though cycling is seen as the ideal form of green transport, millions of bike tyres and inner tubes are thrown away every year in the UK. Is it possible to dispose of these items in an environmentally friendly way?

Recycling company First Mile has acquired local waste collector Giraffe Recycling.

Terracycle’s online store announces a partnership with supermarket chain to trial service providing groceries in refillable, returnable packaging.

A pilot project by packaging company Dow aims to collect and recycle Nigeria’s plastic waste, diverting around 300 million plastic waste sachets away from landfill.