Construction company Willmott Dixon is using MacRebur’s plastic road technology in its new Ashton Rise development in Bristol.

Glasgow’s new state-of-the-art recycling centre aims to save 90,000 tonnes of carbon emissions each year.

Birmingham University has launched a pilot to recover rare earth metals from gadgets, with the help of EU Horizon 2020 funding.

Cans, cartons, glass – a report from think tank Green Alliance reveals why single-use alternatives to plastic water bottles are not as eco-friendly as people think.

Disposable keg company KeyKeg will be supplying sustainable kegs for the Great British Beer Festival, which is taking place over 6-10 August.

On 29 July we have already used up the amount of natural resources that the world can regenerate within a year, the earliest date yet.

Defra’s response to the resources and waste consultations confirm that big changes will be on the cards for 2023, with a deposit return scheme, extended producer responsibility regime and consistency of collections all proposed for introduction by then.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has announced new joint business and government investment in R&D around new forms of packaging made from plants, wood chippings and food waste.

A panel of environmental experts in Scotland has recommended that a 20-25 pence charge should be placed on disposable coffee cups, a policy that the UK Government has previously rejected.

The European paper recycling rate has fallen by 0.8 per cent in 2018, largely due to a sizeable fall in exports of paper for recycling, according to the Confederation of European Paper Industries.