Administrators are seeking an early sale of plastic film reprocessing company PlasRecycle Ltd to ensure that operations can continue.

Voluntary action taken by cosmetic companies to tackle the use of microbeads in their products is in ‘disarray’, according to an investigation by environmental activist organisation Greenpeace.

Members of the public are being asked to nominate poorly-designed and wasteful products as part of a project to identify and redesign products for a more resource efficient economy.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including plastic recycling at a national football tournament, Resource Efficient Scotland’s profit monsters and used cars raising money for charity.

Within two years, a ‘large fraction’ of plastic waste deposited in the ocean from the UK ends up in the Arctic, where it can cause ‘extreme harm’ to wildlife, according to researchers studying ocean currents at Imperial College London.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan says that Veolia’s acquisition of the plastic recycling facility left mothballed by Euro Closed Loop is “good news for London and good news for the environment”.

In what is being billed as ‘an excellent example of circular economy in practice’, enzymes will be used to convert unsorted household waste into biogas at a ‘bio plant’ in Cheshire.

Waste picking in the shadow of the Taj Mahal and discarded life jackets from refugees are among the winning photos of this year’s Environmental Photographer of the Year competition.

A prototype barrier designed by The Ocean Cleanup to catch marine litter in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is to be deployed in the North Sea this week.

A new recycling process could see half of the annual volume of UK coffee cups recycled to form a mouldable resin, thereby reducing unsustainable takeaway cup waste