Hugh’s War on Waste is set to return to our screens tonight, waging new wars on waste culprits Amazon and coffee giants Starbucks, Caffe Nero and Costa and revisiting FareShare to see what developments have been made.

The possibility of one consistent recycling system being used in Scotland is edging closer after the Scottish Government announced that half of the country’s councils have signed up to the Scottish Household Recycling Charter.

Starbucks is to carry out testing on a new paper cup that aims to provide a solution to the almost 2.5 billion disposable coffee cups that go unrecycled in the UK every year.

Administrators are seeking an early sale of plastic film reprocessing company PlasRecycle Ltd to ensure that operations can continue.

Members of the public are being asked to nominate poorly-designed and wasteful products as part of a project to identify and redesign products for a more resource efficient economy.

Sustainability campaign charity Hubbub launched its new Neat Streets website today (6 July), which will act as a sharing platform of global anti-litter campaigns. Here are some of our favourites on the site so far…

A new website aiming to showcase the best anti-litter campaigns from around the world has been launched today to provide councils and businesses with ‘a source of inspiration to fight litter’.

Over 30 businesses, retailers and suppliers including Starbucks, Greggs and McDonald’s have pledged to take action to address the waste caused by disposable paper cups.

A prototype barrier designed by The Ocean Cleanup to catch marine litter in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is to be deployed in the North Sea this week.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a new contract for Casepak, Huhtamaki investment and Bristol’s Big Green Week.