Guidance Mandatory Separate Food Waste Segregation for all businesses set for 2023 25th April 2023 Food Waste / Legislation / UK Government News Government must “go back to the drawing board” with EPR reforms – BRC 24th April 2023 British Retail Consortium / Extended Producer Responsibility / Recycling News Ocean Conservancy urges countries to adopt discarded fishing gear provisions 21st April 2023 fishing gear / Ocean Plastics / UN News Circular Economy Minister announces new Scottish DRS changes 21st April 2023 Circular Economy / Deposit Return Scheme / Scotland News Scottish deposit return scheme delayed until 1 March 2024 18th April 2023 Circular Economy / Deposit Return Scheme / Scotland News EIA report accuses UK farmers of burning agricultural plastic waste 18th April 2023 Agricultural Plastic / Environmental Investigation Agency / Waste Crime News Essex company and directors fined £20,000 for illegal waste site 18th April 2023 Environment Agency / Waste Crime / Waste Fires News Government explores major reform to flagship renewables scheme 17th April 2023 Energy Security / renewable energy / UK Government News Over 120 packaging industry associations issue joint letter to EU 17th April 2023 Circular Economy / European Union / packaging News BMRA – government’s vape scheme “playing with fire” on safety 14th April 2023 BMRA / vapes / WEEE Opinion Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme: ‘Catastrophic’, ‘Reckless’ and ‘Economic Carnage’ 14th April 2023 Deposit Return Scheme / packaging / Scotland News Over 50% of consumers expect food-to-go outlets to provide cutlery 14th April 2023 packaging / reuse / Single-Use Plastic News Environment Agency staff given £3m training on “waste crime gangs” 13th April 2023 Defra / Environment Agency / Waste Crime News Alupro calls on government to secure an aluminium-friendly DRS 12th April 2023 aluminium / Alupro / Deposit Return Scheme News Defra to provide £755,000 fly-tipping grants for local authorities 12th April 2023 Defra / Fly-Tipping / local authorities News UK economy’s nature-related risk to be assessed for “first time” 5th April 2023 Defra / Green Finance Institute / UK Economy News Consistent collection response delayed until after local elections 4th April 2023 CIWM / consistency collections / Defra News Plastic wet wipes to be banned in England next year 4th April 2023 Defra / plastic / Wet Wipes First 1 2 … 46 47 48 … 106 107 Last
