Biochemical producer Anellotech has finished constructing a facility designed to produce 100 per cent bio-based plastic drinks bottles for Suntory Holdings Ltd.

A recycling plant turning carpet waste into a horse-friendly carpet fibre for the equestrian sector has been opened by Potters Recycling in Wales.

The privatisation of the Green Investment Bank GIB has been ‘rushed’ and should not go ahead unless the government can guarantee that it will stick to its original mandate, says the Environmental Audit Committee.

Expansion of the circular economy could create more than 40,000 jobs in London by 2030 and simultaneously drive resource efficiency, according to a new report.

A new social platform designed to fix the logistical problem of redistributing surplus food from retailers and supermarkets to local charities and food banks launched yesterday.

The Derbyshire town of Swadlincote has been chosen as Sainsbury’s ‘trial town’ where innovative projects to reduce food waste will be tested over the next year.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including rugby hoarding recycling, zero landfill restaurants and can recycling in forecourts.

A fleet of biogas-fuelled buses could be running in Bristol as early as next year as part of an initiative to improve air quality in the city.

A new project by the Centre for Process Innovation is developing the use of modified strains of microorganisms to manufacture bioplastics from organic waste products.

Arsenal and France midfielder Mathieu Flamini has revealed that he is one of the people behind a bio-based company that has developed a process to produce levulinic acid on an industrial scale.