The government must support more resource efficient manufacturing in the UK to redress the regional productivity gap and keep good jobs in the UK, according to a group of UK business leaders.

The Mayor of London’s draft Environment Strategy for London must put more emphasis on waste avoidance and reducing single-use packaging, according to the London Waste and Recycling Board.

Used batteries containing valuable metals are being wasted in UK homes; a new campaign wants people to ‘Bring Back Heavy Metal’ and get recycling.

The Danish Fashion Institute has launched a new online tool to help clothing designers and product developers to design and produce clothes more sustainably, in order to reduce textiles waste.

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.

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.

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.