The European Parliament Environment Committee has voted through a draft report on the circular economy, which calls on the European Commission to increase recycling targets to ‘at least’ 70 per cent.

Plastics 2020 and WRAP have launched the Plastics Industry Recycling Action Plan at the Plastics Recycling Expo in Telford.

The Plastics 2020 consortium has announced it will launch the Plastics Industry Recycling Action Plan (PIRAP) at the Plastics Recycling Expo (PRE) in Telford.

World Oceans Day 2015: Cosmetic industry pledges to remove microplastics from products to prevent harm to marine ecosystems.

Environmental charity Hubbub has launched ‘Neat Streets’, a project in London to find the most effective ways of combating littering and bringing about behaviour change.

The ‘world’s first’ ocean plastics clean-up system will be deployed next year off the coast of Tsushima Island in the Korea Strait.

Scottish Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead is meeting with his UK counterpart, Liz Truss, to discuss the potential of bringing in a deposit-return scheme for drinks packaging.

A delegation from the European Commission has taken part in a workshop this week to broker co-operation that could help create a new supply chain in the bio-based industry.

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the measures it should implement in its revised Circular Economy Package to bring about sustainability.

Plastics Recyclers Europe is warning that increasing use of coloured PET packaging could lead to ‘a collapse in the PET & HDPE recycling industry’.