Intermodal shipping containers revolutionised freight transportation, as they could be used on ships, railways and roads. Increasingly, they’re also being used in housing, once their travelling days are over. Verity Rogers takes a look at some of the creative uses they’ve been put to

Resource checks in with PlasRecycle to see how the UK’s first facility for reprocessing post-consumer polythene bags is getting on

Novelis will convert all of its beverage can body sheet production to its high-recycled content sheet, evercan™, ‘by the end of 2017’.

Conwy County Borough Council will roll out its Trolibocs separate collection system to all ‘suitable houses’ by spring 2015.

The winners of the CIWM Professional and UK Sustainability & Resource Industry Awards have been announced.

A lack of awareness of the principle and poor clarity of terminology of the circular economy are stalling its progression, finds new CIWM report.

Defra has released a Voluntary Code of Practice designed to help businesses reduce fast food litter.

The Scottish Government is to fund a new remanufacturing centre and a brokerage service for recyclates.

The European Commission has launched a €143-million call for research projects that investigate reuse and remanufacturing.

The second application round for grants from WRAP’s Innovation in Waste Prevention Fund will open next month.