Over half of the UK’s population wants to know more about what their recycling gets turned into, leading WRAP to using Recycle Week to highlight the transformation of household products.

Keep Britain Tidy has unveiled a dress made from bodyboards dumped on Cornwall’s beaches, aiming to raise awareness of the waste created by cheap disposable items.

The UK public is becoming increasingly confused and frustrated with the lack of harmonisation between recycling collections and difficult-to-understand labelling, according to a new Viridor study released today.

Cross-industry group The Black Plastic Packaging Recycling Forum has agreed a range of new actions and commitments to tackle the long-standing challenge of recycling black plastic packaging.

Selfridges has announced that it will be upcycling used coffee cups from its food hall and headquarters into its iconic yellow shopping bags.

Cardiff faces fines of up to £21 million unless it takes action to recycle an additional 32,000 tonnes of waste a year in order to meet its 2020 recycling target of 64 per cent.

Three days of expert discussion and presentations covered a lot of waste and resources ground at the RWM Conference in Birmingham this week. Here’s a snapshot of some of the things that we picked up wandering the show floor.

Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee [http://resource.co/article/what-environmental-audit-committee-11237] (EAC) is relaunching its predecessor’s investigation into the impact of disposable drinks packaging on the environment, after the original inquiry was disrupted by the general election.

Ecosurety and Hubbub have teamed up to produce a regular series of consumer awareness campaigns in order to boost recycling.

Recycling Association calls for whole supply chain responsibility and to boost recyclate quality in its new Quality First report.