The government has launched a competition offering the opportunity to win funding for research into sustainable waste-based fuels for planes and lorries.

The first delivery of food waste has been tipped at ReFood’s new £32-million anaerobic digestion facility in Dagenham, the largest food waste recycling plant in London.

Bioplastic manufacturer Novamont has pledged to create a minimum bio-based content of 40 per cent across its MATER-BI bioplastics range in an attempt to further reduce the carbon impact of its products.

A two-month expedition to study the ‘plastisphere’ of the Mediterranean Sea departed from the coast of Italy on Thursday, as scientists seek to study how the alarming formation of a plastic-based marine ecosystem will affect the sea and humans.

Our reliance on rare earth elements in our gadget-hungry world is growing, but at what cost?

Researchers at Lancaster University have developed a new technique for converting coffee grounds into biofuels, drastically reducing the time and energy needed in the process.

The Ocean Cleanup project has announced a ‘new design breakthrough’ and that it will be able to begin deployment of its innovative system in Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 2018.

The biology of a common caterpillar could help unlock the solution to the world’s plastic bag dilemma, researchers at Cambridge University have suggested.

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