A round-up of business news from the waste and recycling industry, including On-Pack Recycling Label, SLR Consulting, and Coca-Cola Enterprises.

Scotland’s Zero Waste Taskforce will release a household recycling charter in summer to make collections ‘more consistent’.

As Recycle Week begins, WRAP is urging consumers to check whether items are recyclable before throwing them away, after finding that nearly a third of people are confused about recycling.

The London Borough of Ealing has agreed to move from weekly kerbside-sort recycling collections to fortnightly co-mingled collections in a bid to increase recycling and save money.

Social Investment Scotland has awarded five Scottish social enterprises almost £156,000 raised through Asda’s five pence carrier bag charge.

The European Parliament Environment Committee has voted through a draft report on the circular economy, which calls on the European Commission to increase recycling targets to ‘at least’ 70 per cent.

Environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy is launching its Centre for Social Innovation to develop new approaches to solving litter and waste problems.

Environmental charity Hubbub has launched ‘Neat Streets’, a project in London to find the most effective ways of combating littering and bringing about behaviour change.

DS Smith Group has announced that it has completed its acquisition of Duropack.

The ‘world’s first’ ocean plastics clean-up system will be deployed next year off the coast of Tsushima Island in the Korea Strait.