News: March 2025

Image depicting workplace recycling in the UK
New workplace recycling rules come into force across England
By Resource |
31 March 2025 |
Businesses with 10 or more employees must now separate recyclables and food waste under Simpler Recycling legislation
Old Town of Tallinn, Tallinn, Estonia
Tallinn becomes first European capital to seek zero waste certification
By
Beth Jones
| 27 March 2025 |
Estonian city joins Mission Zero Academy programme with ambitious waste reduction and recycling targets
Bins next to UK Parliament
England’s household recycling rate rises to 44 per cent
By
Beth Jones
| 27 March 2025 |
Latest figures for 2023/24 reverses recent decline, but still remains below pre-pandemic levels
Defra Secretary of State Steve Reed
Steve Reed announces plans to end UK ‘throwaway society’
By
Beth Jones
| 27 March 2025 |
Circular Economy Taskforce to prioritise textiles, transport, construction, agri-food and chemicals and plastics sectors
Clothes on hangers
EU requires ‘systemic shift’ for its Textiles Strategy to tackle rising consumption
By
Beth Jones
| 26 March 2025 |
The clothing, footwear, and household fabrics industries are the fifth largest consumer of raw materials, water and land, and produced over 159 million tonnes of CO2 in 2022
Rescue me - recycle campaign
Recycle Week 2024: 2.9 million people changed their recycling habits
By
Beth Jones
| 26 March 2025 |
WRAP’s ‘Rescue Me - Recycle’ campaign reached 7.3 million people and increased the capture rate of commonly binned recyclables
Celtic Renewables’ biorefinery
Fragmented policy hinders UK bioeconomy’s potential to generate £204B in revenue
By
Beth Jones
| 26 March 2025 |
BB-REG-NET report highlights how conflicting governmental perspectives limit development of sustainable bio-based materials sector
End-of-life tyres (Paul McIlroy / Used tyres / CC BY-SA 2.0)
BBC Investigation: Millions of end-of-life tyres exported to illegal pyrolysis facilities
By
Beth Jones
| 26 March 2025 |
The BBC ‘File on 4’ investigation finds UK tyres fuelling toxic pollution in unlicensed processing plants, prompting industry calls for immediate regulation
Anaerobic Digestion Plant © Chris Allen
AD plants ‘at serious risk of closing down’ as subsidies phased out
By
Beth Jones
| 25 March 2025 |
ADBA warns more smaller plants may close, despite the sector providing significant amount of UK’s renewable energy
Loading scrap metal into electric arc furnace
EU proposes export restrictions as 19M tonnes of metal scrap leave Europe annually
By
Beth Jones
| 21 March 2025 |
The European Steel and Metals Action Plan aims to increase demand for recycled metals while preventing valuable resources from flowing to third countries