Jamie Crummie explains how Zero Waste Cities are imperative to reaching UN food waste targets.

DS Smith has today launched its new sustainability vision and two-phase strategy, ‘Now and Next’, which maps out the company’s commitments and goals for creating a completely circular economy.

Waste management company Viridor and Kent County Council have renewed a dry mixed recycling contract worth £6.2 million for a further 12 months.

North Somerset Council will be taking back responsibility for its waste services with the current commercial contract terminating early in April 2021.

50 per cent of plastic used in Coca-Cola’s core portfolio in Great Britain is now recycled, but the company calls for better designed DRS in order to achieve an entirely circular recycling scheme.

This year, Recycle Week 2020 (21-27 September) will celebrate the British public’s commitment to recycling during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, with research showing that nearly nine in ten households ‘regularly recycle’.

Glass recycling company Recresco has decided to invest in three more air separation systems, produced by Impact Air Systems.

Dr Antonio Espingardeiro, IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers member, describes how robots and AI are revolutionising the recycling sector.

A new report ‘Talking Trash’ has accused multinational companies, including Coca-Cola, Unilever and Mars, of hypocrisy for their part in the plastic crisis.

Developing sustainable fabrics, boosting textile recycling and bringing textile manufacturing jobs back to the UK are some of the key recommendations put forward in a new parliamentary report compiled by behaviour change charity Hubbub on sustainable fashion.