The EU’s main institutions will meet to discuss Circular Economy legislation for the first time next Tuesday after the European Council agreed a negotiating mandate that is believed to contain a 60 per cent recycling target for 2030.

A global coalition of retailers, producers, industry initiatives and cotton standards have come together from across the cotton supply chain to push sustainable cotton into the mainstream.

The UK is one of a number of EU member states refusing to publically back ambitious recycling and reuse proposals ahead of final negotiations in the European Council.

Behaviour change charity Hubbub has unveiled a new anti-littering snack van in the Forest of Dean as part of its #LoveYourForest campaign.

The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch project conceived to clear some of the oceans’ most polluted areas of plastic, has raised $21.7 million since November 2016, allowing the project to begin large-scale trials of its cleanup technology.

The ESA has called on UK political parties standing in June’s general election to commit to building a strong and competitive resource economy through four key policy recommendations.

Northern Ireland has seen its recycling rate for the last quarter increase by two per cent, according to the government’s latest statistics.

Coffee giant Nespresso has announced a pilot scheme allowing customers to recycle their used coffee machine capsules through their local household waste recycling service

The government should establish a national food waste reduction target, with retailers forced to publish figures on their food waste, after a voluntary approach has proved ‘inadequate’, says Parliament’s EFRA Committee.

Advance London, a new circular economy programme aiming to help SMEs to go circular, launched at London’s City Hall this week.