Two new innovations in coffee packaging have been announced, with KFC launching an edible coffee cup and Novamont producing a compostable espresso capsule.

The CLG Committee is calling on government to assign a portion of any increase in tobacco levies to local councils to help cover the cost street cleaning.

Friends of the Earth Europe has released a new report calling on the European Commission to make resource efficiency central to policymaking decisions.

The Dorset Waste Partnership is to continue collecting recycling via a two-stream collection system after finding separate collections are not ‘economically practicable’.

Wales’s Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant has confirmed the evidence base of Wales’s Collection Blueprint is currently being independently reviewed, but defends the approach as ‘the most sustainable option’.

Materials recovery facility operators in Scotland will need to begin sampling incoming and outgoing material from 1 October 2015, it has been revealed.

The Liberal Democrats would introduce charges for all single-use bags, including biodegradable and paper ones, if they were to gain power in May.

DS Smith has launched its ‘The Power of Less’ report to highlight packaging’s potential in a circular economy.

The Welsh Government and Defra have launched a consultation on proposals to ‘enhance’ waste crime enforcement powers in England and Wales.

Corrugated packaging recycler DS Smith has announced its intentions to acquire rival Duropack.