A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a successful food waste campaign in Surrey, a takeover for Helistrat and more.

With the packaging industry recently promoting itself as a key part in the circular economy answer, the European Environmental Bureau’s Piotr Barczak argues that single-use packaging is not the way to avoid Europe producing waste.

Fashion in the twenty-first century is far from sustainable – using up vast amounts of resources and damaging the environment, but what's being done to create a sustainable future?

Smart phones are increasingly designed to give up the ghost after a year or two, but Dutch company Fairphone is attempting to change that by putting the power back into the user's hands.

How is Resource London, a new partnership launched to support London’s waste authorities, helping them to save money and recycle more?

Modern football is associated with vast levels of (financial) waste, but Forest Green Rovers are showing that soccer and sustainability can go hand in hand.

A new EU-funded behaviour change programme is aiming to cut down on the 540,000 tonnes of avoidable food waste created in London households every year and save residents of the capital £330 million along the way.

A project to help smaller businesses to enter the circular economy and develop more sustainable and profitable business operations has kicked off in Wales.

Simon Hann introduces Eunomia’s fourth Local Authority Recycling Carbon Index, examining one of recycling’s key achievements: carbon reduction

The government will hold a consultation later this year to consider how best to ban the tiny fragments of plastic used as exfoliants in cosmetic products, with the hope of finalising a ban sometime in 2017.