Green Alliance research finds that identifying and penalising producers of low-quality electronics could drive efficiencies annually worth up to 800,000 tonnes of avoided carbon dioxide equivalent emissions.

A new report by The Ellen MacArthur Foundation advises on how to pave the way for a low-carbon recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.

A round-up of business news from the waste and resources industry, including Abel & Cole, Viridor and SUEZ.

Bucking the current trend of retail closures, reuse charity Wastesavers has announced the imminent opening of three new shops.

The Scottish Government’s public consultation on single-use plastics, which opened yesterday (12 October), aims to ban the sale of single-use plastics.

WRAP and the Royal Foundation have launched ‘The Earthshot Prize’ to encourage worldwide change with a decade of action to repair the planet.

Thirty per cent fewer households will be going trick or treating this Halloween but 12.8 million pumpkins are still set to go to waste, reveals new research commissioned by environmental charity, Hubbub.

Latin America and the Caribbean must reconsider its economic model in order to fight the long-term impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new research paper by Chatham House.

WRAP will be dedicating a week in March 2021 to raising awareness of the environmental consequences of wasting food, involving retailers, local authorities, restaurants and manufacturers.

Professor Edward Kosior, Managing Director of Nextek, argues the importance of shifting industry focus onto how sorted waste can be properly re-used.