Marks and Spencer has launched its new sustainability plan, Plan A 2025, making a range of sustainability commitments including ensuring all packaging is ‘widely recyclable’ by 2022 and planning to halve food waste by 2025.

The Resource Association has named a new Chair and Vice-Chair following its AGM last week.

Hubbub co-founder Trewin Restorick shares lessons on behaviour change campaigns learnt and implemented through the organisation's Square Mile Challenge to reduce coffee cup waste in central London.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector including a new reprocessing contract for Casepak, new packaging made from eggshells, RCVs for students and HSBC funding for a waste start-up.

Paris is to begin delivery of its separate food waste service in partnership with Novamont, it was announced last week.

McDonald’s has come under fire from Zero Waste France for its recycling and waste management methods, with the group also calling for a transformation in how fast food chains manage and report their waste.

Packaging materials made from upcycled agricultural residual waste have been named ‘Bio-based Material of the Year 2017’ at the 10th International Conference on Bio-based Materials.

The aluminium can recycling rate has hit 70 per cent in the UK, but Alupro has warned that government ambition could 'compromise' future performance.

The Co-op has announced plans to move to 100 per cent recyclable plastic packaging for its own-brand products after a motion was passed unanimously at its AGM.

The EU’s main institutions will meet to discuss Circular Economy legislation for the first time next Tuesday after the European Council agreed a negotiating mandate that is believed to contain a 60 per cent recycling target for 2030.