Increased refurbishment and remanufacture in the European furniture sector could create up to 157,000 jobs and save around six million tonnes of CO2 emissions, according to a study by the European Environmental Bureau.

Keep Britain Tidy has unveiled a dress made from bodyboards dumped on Cornwall’s beaches, aiming to raise awareness of the waste created by cheap disposable items.

Selfridges has announced that it will be upcycling used coffee cups from its food hall and headquarters into its iconic yellow shopping bags.

Waste management company Viridor has released its Sustainability Report 2017, outlining the progress the company has made in relation to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, including its investment in Energy-from-Waste facilities to provide clean and affordable energy.

A circular economy could reduce London’s waste by 60 per cent by 2041 and should be implemented in order to combat falling recycling rates, according to a London Assembly Environment Committee report.

Businesses from the Consumer Goods Forum and Champions 12.3 coalition have issued a call to action to simplify and standardise food date labels worldwide by 2020 in a bid to reduce food waste as Champions 12.3 releases a progress report on global efforts to reduce food waste.

Cardiff faces fines of up to £21 million unless it takes action to recycle an additional 32,000 tonnes of waste a year in order to meet its 2020 recycling target of 64 per cent.

Three days at RWM 2017 in Birmingham last week gave us plenty of time to peruse the many exhibits on show. Here are six of the best new products that impressed us.

Tech company Rubicon Global, a start-up dubbed the ‘Uber of waste’ has been valued at $1 billion following a $50-million investment from Mexican private equity firm Promecap.

The first ever World Biogas Association conference will be held in December on the anniversary of the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol as resource experts come together to discuss carbon pricing and the circular economy.