The 12 winners of the UK’s largest grant fund to boost paper cup recycling, The Cup Fund, have been announced, sharing grants of between £50,000 and £100,000.

Sainsbury’s and TOMRA are teaming up to trial the first supermarket return scheme for drinks containers that includes glass – as Scottish support for an ‘all-in’ DRS builds.

A new biodegradable glitter has been launched by glitter provider Ronald Britton using bioplastic packaging specialist Futamura’s Natureflex technology.

Cans, cartons, glass – a report from think tank Green Alliance reveals why single-use alternatives to plastic water bottles are not as eco-friendly as people think.

New research from Tap Warehouse has revealed that only half of all bathroom packaging in the UK is recycled, accounting for 30-40 per cent of total landfill waste.

A forthcoming deposit return scheme could save 31,000 plastic bottles from littering Scotland’s streets, according to new figures from Zero Waste Scotland.

Rick Hindley, Executive Director of Alupro, the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation, gets his teeth into the issues surrounding deposit return schemes and their impact on aluminium can recycling.

Zero Waste Scotland has released £500,000 of funding for projects that aim to tackle the blight of single-use plastic items in Scotland.

Defra’s response to the resources and waste consultations confirm that big changes will be on the cards for 2023, with a deposit return scheme, extended producer responsibility regime and consistency of collections all proposed for introduction by then.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has announced new joint business and government investment in R&D around new forms of packaging made from plants, wood chippings and food waste.