Waste management company Viridor has re-won the contract to process Ealing Council’s dry mixed recycling, worth £10 million.

Two new river plastic capture devices have been installed in Thailand by the TerraCycle Thai Foundation in a bid to clean up Thailand’s waterways.

A coalition of trade organisations has written to the Environment Secretary George Eustice (1 June) pressing for a ‘total ban’ on oxodegradable plastics.

BBIA Managing Director David Newman looks at how Italy’s new EPR scheme for compostable packaging will work and what lessons it can provide the UK as it revises its packaging EPR system.

The British Standards Institution (BSI) has announced a new project to create the first specification for the management of plastic pellets, flakes and powders to prevent pollution caused by this form of plastic.

The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and the Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment (INCPEN) are working with packaging compliance company Valpak to update the PackFlow material reports in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Tyre particles could be an unreported source of microplastics transported to the oceans, a new study reports.

Pan-European recyclability initiative, RecyClass, announces collaboration with RECOUP, Suez and Plastship to certify plastic packaging recyclability.

The government has told local authorities that there will be no flexibility in the recyclable materials that they will be required to collect from households under collections consistency plans, but there may be room for manoeuvre on how those materials are collected.

Scientists from the Universities of Birmingham and Bath have published findings on a new chemical recycling method for plant-based bioplastics.