Climate Change

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Carbon
WRAP publishes new carbon metric

The Waste and Resources Action Plan (WRAP) has published an updated version of its Carbon Waste and Resources Metric (CarbonWARM) methodology, which provides a tool to assess the greenhouse gas impacts of waste management practices.

WRAP in the Americas official opening at the British Embassy in Washington DC
WRAP opens new office in Washington DC to promote circular living

Expansion aims to enable charity to tackle food waste, plastic pollution and textile waste across North, Central and South America

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Scottish Government updates its circular economy ambitions with new Route Map

Consultation outlines proposed roadmap to 2030 for modernising recycling processes, decarbonising waste disposal and strengthening the circular economy. 

Waste Collection - OEP reports says UK Government needs to overhaul waste strategy
OEP report calls for ‘effective delivery plan’ to update waste and resources strategy
By
Charles Newman
| 18 January 2024 |
Office for Environmental Protection report for Parliament says Government needs to focus on resource efficiency and is currently likely to miss key targets 
DS Smith to trial pulp from waste straw and grain
By
Charles Newman
| 9 January 2024 |
FTSE100 packaging company partnering with Nafici Environmental Research to test application of ‘second harvest’ materials in cardboard production
Carbon capture
Plans approved for new Warrington carbon capture facility
By
Josh Templeman
| 18 October 2023 |
The carbon capture project, Mersey Biochar, will lock away thousands of tonnes of carbon each year into biochar
Defossilisation
Defossilisation versus decarbonisation
By
Dr Jen Vanderhoven
| 12 October 2023 |
Defossilisation versus decarbonisation. What’s in a word? When it comes to climate change, a lot. Three gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions a year, to be precise.
Material footprint
England’s falling material footprint linked to socioeconomics rather than circularity
By
Josh Templeman
| 9 August 2023 |
The material footprint figure in England now sits at 783 million tonnes
Plastic waste
Earth Overshoot Day: Over 80 per cent of Britons want plastic phased out
By
Josh Templeman
| 2 August 2023 |
The overshoot date can be pushed back considerably by reducing plastic waste
Sustainable aviation fuel
Sustainable aviation fuel: Can waste help the industry reach ‘jet zero’?
By
Josh Templeman
| 1 August 2023 |
Using waste to create sustainable aviation fuel has been touted as one of the crucial strategies towards reducing emissions within the aviation industry
Novelis Warrington Latchford plant
Novelis receives Gov funding to trial hydrogen in recycling furnaces
By
Savannah Coombe
| 29 June 2023 |
The trial comes as part of the UK Government's announcement of £82.9 million to help businesses tackle carbon emissions
Carbon emissions
CCC Report advises pace over perfection
By
Savannah Coombe
| 28 June 2023 |
The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has released its 2023 Progress Report to Parliament
Sorting residual waste ‘key to meeting EU’s Circular Economy Objectives’
Sorting residual waste ‘key to meeting EU’s Circular Economy Objectives’
By
Resource
| 16 February 2023 |
New report from ZWE and Reloop finds adoption of mixed waste sorting prior to landfill or EfW could reduce EU waste sector emissions by 25 per cent
hand pouring detergent into lid
New initiative to curb single-use laundry plastics announced in Brighton and Hove
By
Alice Lang
| 2 September 2022 |
The Big Laundry Plastic Amnesty will collect plastic and provide eco-friendly options to residents
Food waste at Boomtown and Eco site
Business in Brief – 01/09/22
By
Alice Lang
| 1 September 2022 |
A round-up of news from the waste and resources industry.
green shoots in soil
UNEP calls for ‘targeted solutions’ to reducing microplastics in soils
By
Alice Lang
| 2 August 2022 |
Soil contamination threatens both food security and the wider environment, the body warns
circle of leaves
Investments in circular businesses set to spike, report finds
By
Alice Lang
| 26 July 2022 |
BDO LLP identified a 64 per cent increase in circular investments in 2020/2021
Marcus Governances CEO WRAP
CEO to leave WRAP at the end of the year
By
Amelia Kelly
| 19 July 2022 |
Marcus Gover joined the charity in 2007, taking over his current position from Liz Goodwin in 2016
UK Houses of Parliament
CCC 2022 progress report: ‘Current programmes will not deliver Net Zero’
By
Alice Lang
| 29 June 2022 |
The document, containing 300 recommendations, questions a ‘heavy reliance’ on EfW
smoke from chimney of waste incinerator
RMAS calls for ‘progressive carbon-based tax’ on waste incineration
By
Alice Lang
| 16 February 2022 |
The policy, the body asserts, would ‘incentivise efficiency and reduce carbon emissions’
GHG emissions associated with waste industry do not count EfW
Defra's GHG emissions indicator for waste industry ‘inadequate for purpose’
By
Resource
| 11 February 2022 |
New report by Dr Dominic Hogg recommends an ‘overhaul’ of the Government’s methodology
Leinster House
Ireland reveals first national circular economy strategy
By
Kai Malloy
| 20 December 2021 |
Plan is key step in country’s aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 51 per cent
Circularity
Report identifies actions waste sector must take to achieve circularity
By
Kai Malloy
| 17 November 2021 |
The recommendations come in advance of the Second National Infrastructure Assessment