• News Tesco cuts 20 million pieces of plastic from its Christmas range 9th December 2020 plastic / Plastic Packaging / Tesco The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo and Nestlé named top plastic polluters for the third year in a row 8th December 2020 Break Free From Plastic / plastic / Plastic Packaging UK Plastics Pact cuts ‘unnecessary’ plastic by 40% 8th December 2020 plastic / Plastic Packaging / Plastics Pact / WRPA UK’s first plastic-free lidless disposable coffee cup launches 7th December 2020 ButterflyCup / coffee cups / plastic French pilot uses chemically recycled polystyrene in yogurt pots 7th December 2020 Circular Economy / plastic / polystyrene Huggies launches baby wipes that biodegrade after 15 days 5th December 2020 Biodegradable Waste / huggies / landfill / plastic ‘Cash strapped’ councils finding it difficult to go green, says report 4th December 2020 Climate Emergency / Green Alliance / local authorities £500k boost for UK recycling as Ecosurety Exploration Fund winners revealed 4th December 2020 CellMine / Ecosurety Exploration Fund / Fit for Reuse Working from home ‘boosts plastic recycling rate’, report finds 3rd December 2020 Coronavirus / plastic / Recoup Coalition launches roadmap for financing the UK’s nature recovery 3rd December 2020 Climate Change / Green Finance Institute / green recovery Council waste teams to get access to ‘transformational’ training bursaries 2nd December 2020 local authorities / Re-Gen Academy / training Innovate UK funding secured to prototype ‘Fitbit for plastic’ app 2nd December 2020 funding / Innovate UK / myplasticdiary / plastic Biffa reaches strategic milestone at Protos EfW facility 2nd December 2020 Biffa / energy from waste / Protos HSE to prosecute following Birmingham fatal wall collapse in 2016 2nd December 2020 health and safety / HSE / West Midlands Police RWM launches inaugural virtual conference 2nd December 2020 Professional Development / ROAR B2B / RWM Pepsi commits to 100% recycled plastic bottles in 9 EU markets by 2022 2nd December 2020 EU / packaging / Pepsico / plastic Cheshire West & Chester Council tops Eunomia’s recycling carbon index 1st December 2020 Carbon Recycling Index / Eunomia / local authorities Landfill rate for waste collected by Northern Ireland councils reaches new low 1st December 2020 Local Authority Collected Waste Statistics / Northern Ireland First 1 2 … 168 169 170 … 306 307 Last