EAC Chair Mary Creagh has written to Education Secretary Justine Greening urging her to include the UN Sustainable Development Goals in the National Curriculum.

With the NHS under strain, could a more effective waste management strategy provide some relief?

Environment Secretary Michael Gove has called for a cross-sector plan to tackle the challenges posed by plastic packaging at a ‘Plastics Roundtable’ with industry leaders last Friday.

A new campaign from environmental charity Hubbub will educate children about the problem of plastic waste while helping to clear London’s waterways of litter.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector including a job-saving takeover of Gelpack, new capacity for Novamont and more community funding from Veolia.

An employee at a Cheshire plastic recycling company had to have his arm amputated after his jumper got caught in a machine.

The government’s Industrial Strategy white paper has been welcomed by the waste and resources industry along with calls for collaboration going forward.

European waste management firm SUEZ has signed a joint venture agreement with plastics manufacturer LyondellBasell that will see ‘high-quality circular polymers’ created for packaging from plastic waste from across Europe.

The government wants to position the UK as a world leader in maximising the value we extract from our resources, strengthening the market for secondary materials and moving towards a more circular economy, its new Industrial Strategy has said.

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