• News Hubbub partners with Tesco to launch ‘No Time for Waste Challenge’ 3rd September 2020 Food Waste / Hubbub / Tesco Consortium to explore solutions to ‘battery powered’ waste fires 3rd September 2020 Eunomia / Lithium ion / Waste Fires Aluminium recycling technology boosted by crystallisation research 2nd September 2020 Aluminium Recycling / University of Birmingham Enterprise UK supermarkets can halve throwaway plastic by 2025, says Greenpeace 2nd September 2020 Greenpeace / packaging / plastic Sharp rise in global plastic waste crime – INERPOL 2nd September 2020 Interpol / plastic / Waste Crime Scots urged to choose reusable face coverings for coronavirus protection 1st September 2020 Coronavirus / Scotland / Single-Use Bag charge to double and will be extended to all retailers 1st September 2020 Carrier Bag Charge / plastic / single use carriers Brits ‘most willing’ to change their consumption behaviour 28th August 2020 Circular Economy / consumption / Coronavirus / TOMRA Australia seeks to ‘take responsibility for its waste’ with ‘landmark legislation’ 27th August 2020 Australia / plastic / Waste Exports UK’s carbon emissions fell by almost a third over the lockdown period 26th August 2020 Carbon Emissions / Climate Change / Coronavirus Consumer giants sign up to Plastics Pact as it launches in the US 26th August 2020 Ellen MacArthur Foundation / Plastics Pact / United States Scandinavian waste tyre recycling start-up to open plant at Port of Sunderland 25th August 2020 Port of Sunderland / Waste Tyres / Wastefront £20m plastic-to-hydrogen plant moves forward 25th August 2020 hydrogen facility / Peel L&P Environmental / plastic Jaguar Land Rover set to cut emissions by a quarter using recycled aluminium 25th August 2020 Aluminium Recycling / Closed Loop Recycling / Jaguar Land Rover Kent councils urge magistrates to take greater action on fly tippers 24th August 2020 Fly-Tipping / Kent Resource Partnership / Waste Crime UK plastics reprocessing capacity ‘needs to double’ by 2022 – RECOUP 24th August 2020 ESA / plastic / Plastic Tax / Recoup Earth Overshoot Day: COVID-19 has caused humanity’s Ecological Footprint to contract 21st August 2020 Climate Change / Earth Overshoot Day / Global Footprint Network Global Study: At least 10 times more plastic in Atlantic than previously thought 21st August 2020 microplastic / National Oceanography Centre / Ocean Plastic First 1 2 … 178 179 180 … 306 307 Last