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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
An image of a kerbside recycling box
Marginal increase in England’s recycling rate

England’s ‘waste from households’ recycling rate has risen by 0.3 per cent to 45.1 per cent in 2018/19, according to Defra’s latest stats. 

Black Friday has been condemned for promoting excessive consumerism
Make Friday Green Again – making Black Friday sustainable

Annual November savings event, Black Friday, encourages excessive consumerism but this year organisations are promoting creative making, upcycling and repairing to bring communities together and reduce environmental damage.

An image of Carole Taylor at the LARAC conference
Carole Taylor confirmed as LARAC Chair for two more years

The Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC) has confirmed that Carole Taylor will continue as Chair for another two-year term.

An image of some batteries
Ecosurety launches £1-million environmental impact fund

Environmental compliance scheme Ecosurety has launched a £1 million fund to support projects tackling the environmental impacts of packaging, batteries or waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).

Carpet Recycling UK announces carpet waste landfill diversion rate increases to 42 per cent
Investigation reveals Carpet Recycling UK members sending carpets to incineration

Trade association Carpet Recycling UK’s members oversee the incineration of almost 130,000 tonnes of carpet annually, 73 per cent of all carpets they divert from landfill, according to a new investigation.

The Resource Association has announced it will be closing at the end of the year
Resource Association to close after eight years

The Resource Association has announced that the organisation will be closing on 31 December 2019, subject to formal ratification by its members in December.

An image of a Welsh food recycling caddy
Provisional quarterly data indicates 67 per cent recycling rate for Wales

The latest quarterly reports indicate Wales’ recycling rate has risen to an all-time high of 67 per cent. 

A screenshot of the Conservative Party's manifesto
Conservative manifesto echoes Environment Bill

The Conservative Party’s 2019 manifesto proposes very little beyond the plans included in the government’s Environment Bill.