News: April 2022

plastic pint cups
Poll reveals 89 per cent want plastic pint cups banned
By
Amelia Kelly
| 29 April 2022 |
In the UK, 100 million plastic cups are used annually
Tesco wasted food items
Tesco launches new ‘Use Up Day’ campaign
By
Amelia Kelly
| 29 April 2022 |
Survey finds that every day half a million Britons throw away food
Coke Store
News in Brief – 28/04/22
By
Amelia Kelly
| 28 April 2022 |
A round-up of news in the waste and resources industry
Reusable Nappy Week
Reusable Nappy Week focuses on ‘choose to reuse’
By
Amelia Kelly
| 27 April 2022 |
Campaign aims to inform parents and caregivers about the environmental benefits of reusable nappies
Burger King 1
Burger King announces pilot launch of reusable packaging
By
Amelia Kelly
| 26 April 2022 |
Trial in East of England forms part of retailer’s ‘zero per cent single-use plastics by 2025’ goal
Axil Integrated Services
Axil Integrated Services signs new deal with UK’s largest wholesale market
By
Resource
| 26 April 2022 |
Five-year extension agree to manage Birmingham market following successful first year
LOREAL Circular Innovation Fund
L’Oréal announces Circular Innovation Fund
By
Amelia Kelly
| 26 April 2022 |
Cosmetics giant leading €150m package to scale circular innovations 
Supermarket
Co-op announces plan to remove use-by on own-brand yoghurts
By
Amelia Kelly
| 22 April 2022 |
By scrapping guidance dates, the business hopes to reduce food waste
Reuse
Viridor and Reuse Network announce strategic partnership
By
Amelia Kelly
| 22 April 2022 |
The pair hope to support growth and fund training for ‘professional repairers’ in the reuse sector 
Veolia Fleet
Veolia announces first renewable fuelled fleet
By
Amelia Kelly
| 21 April 2022 |
The UK fleet will be ‘solely powered by renewable Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil’