The Latest Breaking News on Recycling

Environmental campaigners urged the Scottish First Minister to continue with the scheme, despite Westminster barring it from including glass bottles.

WESTMINSTER has refused to allow Scotland to include glass in its planned recycling scheme.

The First Minister also attacked the UK Government’s plans for its own DRS.

The future of a flagship recycling scheme could be decided at a meeting of the Scottish Government Cabinet on Tuesday.

A fifth-generation fisherman finds an innovative way to remove and recycle plastic waste from the Mediterranean Sea.

The new packaging will result in a reduction of almost two thirds (63 per cent) of plastic, with the smaller packs saving space, and taking up to 350 delivery trucks off the road per year.

Torik Holmes, research associate at the sustainable consumption institute at the University of Manchester, Helen Holmes, senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Manchester, and Kristoffer Kortsen, post doctoral research associate at the University of Manchester explain how the recycling system in the UK has got so complicated and what…

The packs are made from 89% plant-based materials

Lidl, Co-Op and Sainsbury's now all offer the new recyclable packaging on their own brand beef mince products in a bid to reduce plastic waste