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Sadie Westwood, Business Director at 23red.
The recipe for success: The behavioural nudges needed to combat food waste

Sadie Westwood, Business Director at creative agency 23red, discusses how communications campaigns should make use of nudges and targeted messaging to encourage people to waste less food.

Simon Weston, Director of Raw Materials for the Confederation of Paper Industries
Balancing our approach to packaging reform

Enthusiasm to simplify the recycling instructions on packaging risks throwing the baby out with the bathwater, writes Simon Weston, Director of Raw Materials for the Confederation of Paper Industries.

Rick Hindley, Executive Director of Alupro
DRS: A whole can of worms

Rick Hindley, Executive Director of Alupro, the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation, gets his teeth into the issues surrounding deposit return schemes and their impact on aluminium can recycling.

Illustration of a cardboard Parliament sticking out of a recycling bin
Recycling Parliament

Ray Georgeson imagines a sustainable solution to fix the historic but crumbling Palace of Westminster

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Can you imagine how much recycling gets missed across a county?
Over 32,000 tonnes of material that could be recycled is instead put in residual waste bins each year in West Sussex, costing the council an estimated £3 million a year in disposal costs. To highlight the scale of this waste, West Sussex County Council has created a video that visualises it on a personal and then county-wide level.
Gum Forest sprouts in London to make litterers reconsider spitting out their gum
CIWM President Trevor Nicoll
CIWM appoints new President and Board of Trustees

Trevor Nicoll has been appointed CIWM’s President, alongside a new presidential team and seven trustees. 

An image of packaging waste
Consumers will pay more for reduced-plastic packaging, says study

DS Smith has released the results of a packaging survey, revealing that six in ten European consumers would be happy to pay more for packaging with less plastic. 

A metroSTOR bin store.
Improve bin store access to boost flats recycling, says metroSTOR

Bin store provider metroSTOR has called for improved access to recycling bin stores in communal properties, echoing the objectives of Resource London’s Flats Recycling Project to improve accessibility and increase communications with residents.

Rows of large plastic bottles
Alupro issues Scottish DRS warning

Aluminium recycling organisation Alupro warns that Scotland’s ‘all-in’ deposit return scheme could result in an extra 823 million plastic bottles being produced.

An image od a supermarket trolly
WRAP reiterates call for retailers to improve labelling to reduce food waste

The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has published its latest Retail Survey, revealing the progress made by supermarkets in improving food labelling and packaging. 

Selection of drinks cartons
ACE announces rise in EU beverage carton recycling rate

The recycling rate for beverage cartons in the EU rose to 48 per cent in 2018, says ACE.

Ben Napthine, Streetspace board member
Streetspace makes board appointment

Streetspace Group has strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of Ben Napthine to its board.

An image of plastic bottles
British Plastics Federation survey reveals Brexit impact fears

The leading trade association for the UK plastics industry has published a survey revealing that a majority of its members want to remain in the EU and believe that a no-deal Brexit will have a significant impact on their businesses.