The world’s biggest plastic polluters have been called out in a new report from The Changing Markets Foundation.
Released today (17 September), ‘Talking Trash: The Corporate Playbook of False Solutions’ accuses big plastic polluters of obstructing and undermining legislative solutions to the plastics crisis for the past few decades.
UK supermarket Tesco is set to trial new recycled food-grade soft plastic packaging on a range of cheeses in its stores this week, the first time that soft plastic packaging has been recycled into safe food-grade packaging.
Coca-Cola European Partners has announced that it will be transitioning to bottles made from 100 per cent recycled PET (rPET) in its Netherlands and Norway markets from the end of the year.
Resource spoke to Anna Queralt Fuentes, Engagement Manager at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF), about the newly released Circular Design Toolkit and the wider implications of circular design.
The UK’s municipal recycling rate continues to sit well below those of leading European recycling nations such as Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands, according to municipal waste data from Eurostat, although its recycling rate has improved slightly.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has released two policy papers on monitoring and evaluation of the government’s Resources and Waste Strategy for England.
Italian bioplastics company Novamont has received B Corp Certification, part of a global movement which aims to put more emphasis on social and environmental responsibility in business.
A pilot project by packaging company Dow aims to collect and recycle Nigeria’s plastic waste, diverting around 300 million plastic waste sachets away from landfill.
94 per cent of Amazon shoppers in the UK are concerned about plastic pollution and want plastic-free packaging options, according to a new survey by ocean conservation organisation Oceana.
With only four per cent of soft flexible plastic packaging currently recycled, a new roadmap has been released by WRAP to create a circular economy for these materials.
Diageo has announced the creation of its first plastic-free bottle for spirits made from sustainably-sourced pulp in a statement made by the beverage company yesterday (13 July).
85 per cent of Brits believe that food packaging should be compostable, with two thirds of those asked agreeing that the food industry should lead the move towards compostable packaging, according to the results of a new Populus poll released today (8 July).
A group of 119 experts and scientists have signed a statement reassuring the public that reusable containers are safe to use during the Covid-19 pandemic, provided hygiene measures are followed.
The risk posed to the waste and resources sector by Brexit has increased over the last few months, with the UK falling further behind EU standards and ambition, according to Greener UK’s latest Brexit Risk Tracker.
BBIA Managing Director David Newman looks at how Italy’s new EPR scheme for compostable packaging will work and what lessons it can provide the UK as it revises its packaging EPR system.
The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and the Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment (INCPEN) are working with packaging compliance company Valpak to update the PackFlow material reports in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Plant-based packaging company Vegware has teamed up with recycling company Paper Round to launch a compostable packaging collection service across London, Brighton and Sussex.
