Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee has criticised the government’s inadequate response to its ‘Plastic bottles: Turning back the plastic tide’ report and lack of action of preventing plastic bottle waste.

A new plastic-focused campaign from the WRAP says the world is fast becoming a ‘plastic planet’ - and hopes to engage consumers to improve recycling rates in order to combat this.

The UK’s Waste from Households recycling rate has increased to 45.2 per cent in 2016, up from 44.6 per cent in 2015, according to official statistics released today (22 February) by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee has pressed Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond, regarding his commitment to looking at fiscal measures to reduce single-use plastics.

CIWM has expressed its support for four-weekly collections of residual waste as long as schemes are well-designed and contain provisions such as the weekly separate collection of food waste.

The Insider asks what the UK's producer responsibility system has actually delivered since its inception 20 years ago.

If we are to create a circular economy, everyone needs to be on board. Resource looks at how Zero Waste Europe is spreading best practice across the continent, and how lessons for a greener future already exist, they just need to be accessed.

‘Urgent change’ is needed to stop recyclable and biodegradable material from being incinerated in London, as energy-from-waste hinders the capital’s move to a more circular economy, according to the London Assembly’s Environment Committee.

Scottish Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham has revealed that the Scottish Government is seeking to introduce a ban on plastic straws by the end of 2019.

Defra has launched an online litter dashboard to bring together a variety of facts and figures in an attempt to reveal the current state of the nation regarding litter and littering.