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Ferrybridge Carbon Capture and Storage facility

Waste Management

Carbon budget allocates £58m for waste sector decarbonisation research

The government has outlined its approach to reducing waste sector emissions as part of its Carbon Budget and Growth Delivery Plan, published this week, with waste and F-gas (fluorinated gases used in refrigeration and air conditioning) emissions accounting for 27 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, representing six per cent of total UK net greenhouse gas emissions.

Andrew Gomarsall MBE

Waste Management

Dealing with our Critical Raw Materials dependency – A Strategic Moment for UK and Europe

Andrew Gomarsall on measures to encourage bio-based refining and address a key issue in our economic security

Site of new Endolys chemical recycling plant

Endolys plans 120,000-tonne plastic film pyrolysis facility in Darlington

£120m facility aims to process film waste into pyrolysis oil for petrochemical markets

Optical sorting machine at a recycling plant

Tetra Pak completes £1.4 million AI sorting investment with Scotland facility

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26 September 2025 |

Levenseat Resource Management installs first AI-powered carton sorting technology in Scotland

Hands holding a bit of green plastic film

UK tax policies undermine bio-based plastics despite circular economy goals

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26 September 2025 |

Research finds bio-based alternatives face £520 per tonne EPR fees while incinerating plastic waste generates 3 million tonnes of CO2 annually

Hand holding reprocessed polypropylene pellets

First food-safe polypropylene produced from ocean-bound waste

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25 September 2025 |

Partnership prevents 500 million cups reaching oceans whilst meeting European food contact standards

Aerial image of Suez efw facilities at haverton hill

Energy-from-waste costs could rise 50 per cent under UK ETS expansion plans

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| 25 September 2025 |

Research commissioned by Suez estimates gate fees may increase £48 per tonne from 2028

Aeriel view of a cement factory in France

Circular economy measures could cut EU cement emissions by 50 million tonnes

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24 September 2025 |

European Commission research identifies production-focused interventions as more effective than recycling approaches

Waste debris, including food waste, with the Taj Mahal in the background

WRAP to start India food waste programme through Clinton Global Initiative

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| 24 September 2025 |

NGOs planned programme to address India's 78.2 million tonnes of annual food waste through targeted interventions across hotels, manufacturing and policy development

Warehouse worker with hardhat wrapping boxes in stretch film parcel on pallet

UK plastic packaging tax undermined by fraudulent recycled content claims

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Olivia Loughran

| 22 September 2025 |

RECOUP report reveals imported packaging falsely claiming recycled content is undermining UK recyclers' competitiveness

Toothpaste tube in a bathroom bin

Industry collaboration eliminates toothpaste tube contamination from recycling streams

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Olivia Loughran

| 19 September 2025 |

HDPE redesign removes aluminium barriers and reduces wish-cycling ahead of 2026 collection requirements

Exterior shot of people outside a Salvation Army donation centre

Salvation Army textile collections reach 77,000 tonnes as voucher scheme doubles

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Olivia Loughran

| 19 September 2025 |

SATCoL doubles clothing aid while cutting 505,000 tonnes of carbon

Surgical gloves being discarded

NHS shift from single-use plastics to bio-based products could unlock £120 million market

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Olivia Loughran

| 18 September 2025 |

Research identifies opportunity to expand the UK bioeconomy through sustainable public purchasing

Unpacking the new EU rules on textiles and food waste

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Olivia Loughran

| 18 September 2025 |

New revision of Waste Framework Directive introduces binding food waste targets and EPR schemes for textiles

Waste wood sector revises fire prevention guidance approach after a fall in site incidents

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Olivia Loughran

| 18 September 2025 |

WRA updates guidance to balance operational efficiency with enhanced fire controls

CityToSea campaigners stood in a park holding banners to promote World Reuse Day

City to Sea closes after 10 years of plastic pollution campaigns

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| 16 September 2025 |

Environmental charity that helped to build a global refill network to cease operations citing competitive grant environment

Fire breaks out on sorting line at a Materials Recovery Facility ©ESA

Battery fires in UK waste facilities surge 71 per cent to over 1,200 incidents a year

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| 15 September 2025 |

Environment Services Association calls for universal kerbside collections to tackle growing epidemic threatening worker safety

UNTHA XR3000C mobile shredder at Bloomfield Recycling's depot

Bloomfield Resources invests £600k in UNTHA shredder to accelerate zero-to-landfill goal

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12 September 2025 |

Birmingham recycling firm installs XR3000C mobile shredder to increase recovery rates and divert all waste from landfill

Gillian Martin, Iain Gulland, Dominic Fry at pioneering biotech start-up, MiAlgae

Scotland circular economy worth £7.1bn and 81,000 jobs study shows

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| 11 September 2025 |

State of the Circular Economy report reveals 'significant and thriving' economic landscape

Doctor removing blue plastic gloves and throwing them in the bin

Healthcare single-use plastics could cost health systems €34 billion annually by 2040

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| 10 September 2025 |

Study shows 53 per cent reduction in hospital plastic waste achievable through proven circular strategies

Artist impression of how future Teeside WFW facility might look like

Newcastle councillors vote to withdraw from £2.1bn waste incinerator project

By

Olivia Loughran

| 9 September 2025 |

Non-binding motion passes by a single vote amid cost and pollution concerns

Whole used tyres for recycling

TRA warns domestic tyre processors could follow plastics industry into crisis

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8 September 2025 |

Industry body warns of similar fate to plastics sector amid market pressures and regulatory failures

Bales of plastic recycling waiting to be processed

Plastic Overshoot Day highlights overproduction ‘we can’t recycle our way out of’

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Olivia Loughran

| 5 September 2025 |

Global plastic waste generation projected to reach 225 million tonnes in 2025, surpassing reprocessing capacity

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