A new project by the Centre for Process Innovation is developing the use of modified strains of microorganisms to manufacture bioplastics from organic waste products.

Arsenal and France midfielder Mathieu Flamini has revealed that he is one of the people behind a bio-based company that has developed a process to produce levulinic acid on an industrial scale.

Powys will become the second local authority in Wales to implement three-weekly kerbside residual waste collections when the new system begins next Monday.

Pledge 4 Plastics, the national recycling campaign trying to increase the collection of plastic packaging for recycling, has released a video emphasising the potential of recycled plastics.

CIWM has criticised Defra’s responses to the European Commission’s Circular Economy Package consultation, saying they highlight ‘Whitehall’s ambivalent attitude to green growth’.

The number of obligated material recovery facilities (MRFs) supplying quarterly details of their activities is still not improving, three reporting periods into the regulations requiring them to do so.

The worldwide production capacity of bio-based polymers will triple from 5.7 million tonnes in 2014 to nearly 17 million tonnes in 2020, according to a new market study by the nova-Institute.

A group investigating the opportunities and challenges of creating more consistency in kerbside collection is to present recommendations to Defra later this month.

Industry bodies from the waste and resource management sector have called on the European Commission to consider pull mechanisms to stimulate demand for recycled materials in the upcoming Circular Economy Package.

Importing cheap, single-use tyres to the marketplace is having a ‘devastating’ impact on the environment, members of the UK’s retread tyre industry have warned the government.