Grocery brands pledge to cut 1.1 million tonnes of waste by 2015 as the third phase of the Courtauld Commitment begins.

Transport body ScotRail launches ‘major’ trial at Scottish railway stations to encourage people to ‘recycle on the go’.

Half of all UK local authorities now offer kerbside recycling collections for drink cartons, ACE UK figures reveal.

The Department for Energy and Climate Change awards £21 million to businesses for ‘innovative low carbon products’.

Gwynedd Council expands recycling service to include rigid plastics and drinks cartons in a bid to boost recycling rates.

Defra offers stakeholders an opportunity to give their views regarding funding for WRAP's activities in England.

Smurfit Kappa’s Simon Weston on why reprocessors should also be willing to embrace material sampling

Councils across the UK promote home composting as part of International Compost Awareness Week 2013.

Environmentalists, NGOs and the furniture industry call on government to impose ‘strict limits’ on biomass subsidies.

The electronics industry is calling for e-waste to be reclassified as ‘non-waste’ to allow ‘export for repair’.