Supermarket chain Costcutter has made a donation of £650,000 to resource efficiency charity WRAP as part of a set of enforcement undertakings announced by the Environment Agency.

Prevention and recycling must underpin the EU’s plastics strategy to reduce marine plastics pollution, according to EU Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella.

Resource talks to Entomics co-founder Matt McLaren about the origins of the Cambridge-based start-up’s insect-derived protein product it hopes will provide another solution to the world’s growing food waste problem.

Over half of the UK’s population wants to know more about what their recycling gets turned into, leading WRAP to using Recycle Week to highlight the transformation of household products.

Keep Britain Tidy has unveiled a dress made from bodyboards dumped on Cornwall’s beaches, aiming to raise awareness of the waste created by cheap disposable items.

The UK public is becoming increasingly confused and frustrated with the lack of harmonisation between recycling collections and difficult-to-understand labelling, according to a new Viridor study released today.

Re-Gen Waste Ltd has made a £2-million investment in its Newry plant with another £7 million to be spent within 3 years.

Cross-industry group The Black Plastic Packaging Recycling Forum has agreed a range of new actions and commitments to tackle the long-standing challenge of recycling black plastic packaging.

Selfridges has announced that it will be upcycling used coffee cups from its food hall and headquarters into its iconic yellow shopping bags.

Less than three per cent of Kent’s household waste was sent to landfill in 2016/17, according to provisional performance data from the Kent Resource Partnership (KRP)’s annual report released today.