Until 31 July, the UK Government will be matching public donations up to £2 million to help communities in low-income countries manage their waste.

Coffee chain Starbucks and environmental charity Hubbub have come together to launch The Cup Fund, which will see grants going to at least 10 large-scale cup recycling projects.

Londoners have saved over 750,000 items of clothing from landfill in six months through textile reuse charity TRAID.

The Furniture Re-use Network (FRN) has relaunched itself as simply the Reuse Network in a bid to widen its scope and further promote the importance of reuse as a concept.

The determination of one group of women has seen a Lebanese village's multi-stream recycling collection expand in the absence of adequate state assistance.

Around seven million costumes were thrown in the bin after Halloween last year, and Hubbub and the NLWA have some tricks to reduce the needless 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.

Social recycling and waste management company Recycling Lives has been handed a contract to process waste metal coming from fuel reprocessing and decommissioning at Sellafield.

Sainsbury’s has partnered with behaviour change charity Hubbub and Bosch to launch a new initiative to combat the environmental and social impact of food waste – The Community Fridge Network.

Bristol charity Aid Box Community will be salvaging unwanted tents and camping equipment at Glastonbury festival this weekend to donate to refugees in need of them.