A new wide-ranging UK Plastics Pact has been launched today, which will see a range of businesses from across industry commit to eliminating ‘unnecessary’ single-use plastic packaging by 2025.

Behaviour change specialist Hubbub has launched a new partnership with Compass Group UK & Ireland and commercial kitchen food waste app Winnow to reduce the amount of food thrown away in corporate and university restaurants.

Heathrow airport is joining the fight against disposable coffee cups with the announcement that it wants to recycle all cups sold on the premises by the end of the year.

The European award for circular economy startups and innovators has launched a call for applications for this year’s competition ahead of October’s Berlin final.

A ban on plastic straws, drinks stirrers and cotton buds could be in place in England next year after a consultation was announced by Theresa May today (19 April).

One of the final hurdles in ratifying new European circular economy legislation has been cleared as the European Parliament votes through the Circular Economy Package, fixing a 65 per cent recycling target for 2035.

reGAIN, the UK’s first app for the recycling of unwanted clothing, has been launched today (18 April) as research claims 73 per cent of consumers no longer wear up to half of the items of clothing they own.

The British public has not changed its behaviour towards single-use plastic, and action is needed to make tap water more accessible, says a report by YouGov for BRITA and Keep Britain Tidy.

Fashion retail giant H&M has revealed that 35 per cent of the materials used by the company in 2017 were recycled or sustainably-sourced materials in its new Sustainability Report 2017.

In a bid to cut waste and pollution, UK supermarket Waitrose has announced plans to scrap disposable coffee cups from all its stores, which it says will save 52 million cups from being thrown away every year.