Dutch social enterprise Circle Economy has launched a new online crowdsourcing platform to pull together new circular solutions to global challenges.

Shops and businesses across London have signed up to take part in a trial scheme that offers free tap water ‘refills’ to members of the public as part of the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan’s efforts to tackle single-use plastic waste.

Wales could be set to target an 80 per cent municipal waste recycling rate by 2035, according to Welsh Minister for Environment Hannah Blythyn at the CIWM Resource Conference Cymru yesterday (14 March).

The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has criticised the government’s management and sale of the Green Investment Bank, saying it ‘failed to live up to’ its green objectives.

The River Tame, which flows through the Greater Manchester area was found by geographers at the University of Manchester to have a microplastics concentration of 517,000 particles per square metre.

There has been good news for investors in the UK anaerobic digestion market. Foresight Group explains how to finance AD plants and grow organisations.

Progress on the EU’s Plastics Strategy continues unabated as Europe’s environment ministers reached agreement on the content of the strategy at a meeting of the Environment Council on Monday (5 March).

Plans for a groundbreaking ‘waste-to-chemistry’ facility in Rotterdam to recycle waste into methanol are moving forwards after the project received £8 million of funding.

Certain LEGO bricks will soon be made from a sustainably-sourced sugar cane bioplastic, with a view to using the material for every piece by 2030.

SUEZ recycling & recovery UK has begun utilising a new data platform, bringing together information from across the entire organisation to better facilitate moves towards increased circularity.