• News Regulator approves UK’s first recycling plant for household batteries 19th January 2021 battery recycling / Environment Agency / Wastecare Viridor and CNIM announce handover of £252m Avonmouth energy recovery facility 18th January 2021 Avonmouth / energy from waste / Viridor ‘Successful’ first year for waste crime taskforce ‘despite pandemic’ 18th January 2021 Joint Unit for Waste Crime / Waste Crime Scotland to increase single-use plastic bag charge 18th January 2021 Carrier Bag Charge / plastic / Single-Use 2020 saw highest ever level of aluminium packaging collected for recycling 15th January 2021 Aluminium Packaging / Alupro / Coronavirus Sustainability still ‘top priority’ for UK businesses in spite of Covid-19 and profitability pressures 15th January 2021 Coronavirus / Green Business / green recovery Londoners encouraged to donate unused laptops in face of ‘digital exclusion’ 14th January 2021 E-Waste / electronics / reuse / The Restart Project Report: Plastic waste going into landfill could be cut to 1% by 2030 14th January 2021 British Plastics Federation / landfill / plastic Lithium-ion battery waste fires costing UK over 150m a year 13th January 2021 battery waste / Lithium Ion Batteries / Waste Fires UK criticised for not following EU over plastic waste export ban 13th January 2021 Basel Action Network / Defra / plastic / Waste Exports First medicine packet recycling programme launches for UK pharmacies 12th January 2021 healthcare / packaging / plastic / TerraCycle China trials AI-enabled sorting machines to keep plastic in circular economy 12th January 2021 Alibaba Group / plastic / Technology / Unilever Prime minister urged to replicate Covid vaccine ‘focus and urgency’ in search for climate solutions 12th January 2021 green recovery / Innovation / net zero Survey finds shift towards environmentally focused resolutions in 2021 11th January 2021 behaviour change / Garnier / green recovery Prince Charles calls for businesses to join ‘Earth charter’ 11th January 2021 net zero / Prince Charles / Terra Carta £200 million boost to upgrade UK labs to help scientists tackle COVID-19 and cut emissions 8th January 2021 Climate Change / Coronavirus / net zero Veolia sends formal proposal for Suez takeover bid 8th January 2021 acquisitions / business / SUEZ / Veolia Open burning of solid waste is ‘global threat’ 7th January 2021 Engineering X / open burning / Waste Management First 1 2 … 165 166 167 … 306 307 Last