News posts from 2017

Around 350,000 tonnes of avoidable household food waste, worth an estimated £1bn annually, could be prevented through further changes to key food items in the UK’s shopping aisles, according to WRAP’s latest Retailer Survey. Today’s (27 February) announcement comes as part of WRAP’s long-standing work with retailers and food manufacturers to help consumers waste less […]

Costa has launched its nationwide cup recycling scheme, which promises to recycle “any cup” – even from competitors – following a successful trial. The coffee chain will also launch a number of new initiatives in the first quarter of 2017. Aiming to increase the number of takeaway cups recovered and recycled across the country, customers […]

BBC children’s show Blue Peter has announced that its famous badges will be going green, being made from old yoghurt pots. The programme, which since 1967 has shown kids how to craft things out of old toilet roll tubes and other household waste, will launch two of the new recycled Blue Peter badges this month, with all […]

The United Kingdom and Italy tied for tenth place as the top-ranked municipal waste recyclers in Europe during 2015, figures published today by the European Union’s statistics body Eurostat today (30 January) suggest. According to the figures, which are submitted on behalf of the EU’s 27 member states, as well as other European nations including […]

Recent figures published by Defra show a fall in recycling rate for the first time since recording began in 2010. The combined recycling and composting rate for waste from households stood at 44.3% in 2015. In 2014 the rate was 44.9%. Although there was a drop in the rate from the previous year, the figure […]