• News Seed funding to develop world’s first fully automated MRF 15th December 2020 funding / Materials Recovery Facility / recycleeye 102 million disposable facemasks discarded each week in the UK 15th December 2020 Coronavirus / NLWA / plastic / Single-Use Boots’ beauty product recycling scheme saves over a tonne of plastic from landfill 14th December 2020 boots / plastic / Plastic Packaging Welsh government backs project to turn waste plastic into carbon nanotubes 14th December 2020 plastic / Swansea University / Wales Councils struggling with ‘data black hole’ in face of net zero targets 11th December 2020 Climate Change / data / local authorities / net zero European Commission to establish carbon footprint declaration for batteries 11th December 2020 Batteries / Circular Economy / European Commission Dame Glenys Stacey selected as preferred chair for new green watchdog 11th December 2020 Dame Glenys Stacey / Environment Bill / Office for Environmental Protection Wood Recyclers’ Association to challenge hazardous waste regulations 10th December 2020 hazardous waste / HWRCs / The Wood Recyclers’ Association Unilever and Starbucks join alliance to boost anaerobic digestion use in US 10th December 2020 Anaerobic Digestion / Farm Powered Strategic Alliance / Starbucks / Unilever Waste sector emissions can be reduced by 75% by 2050 – CCC 9th December 2020 Climate Change / Climate Change Committee / energy from waste Conwy pilots new digital deposit return scheme for plastic bottles 9th December 2020 Conwy County Council / DRS / Wales 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 First 1 2 … 170 171 172 … 308 309 Last
