3+ hour, 56+ min ago   (290+ words) Scotland's circular economy delivery body to be folded into a single environment agency alongside SEPA and NatureScot, with no timetable and functions still to be decided. Zero Waste Scotland will be merged with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and NatureScot…...

3+ hour, 56+ min ago   (362+ words) Plant closures and fires have cut specialist fridge recycling capacity so sharply that councils are running out of storage, with the LGA calling on government and producers to act. Cllr Arooj Shah, chair of the LGA's Neighbourhoods Committee, said the…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (229+ words) Published in Advanced Materials, the polymer-ceramic composite suppresses dendrite formation - the mechanism that triggers thermal runaway when lithium cells are crushed or punctured in waste handling. Researchers at Chonnam National University in South Korea have developed a solid-state electrolyte that…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (236+ words) The Circular Economy Institute has launched the CEI Business Excellence Partner programme, an independently verified framework that scores organisations from 0 to 3 across seven areas including operations, procurement and transparency. Successful applicants are designated bronze, silver or gold. Waste management firm…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (405+ words) The report, published through PackFlow, was completed in April while councils were preparing for a March 2027 collection deadline, which has since been moved to April 2030. However, Valpak's findings indicate the additional time does not resolve the underlying capacity constraints. Although…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (397+ words) UK Packaging PRO has appointed Kerry Easter as chief executive and Karen Graley as chief operating officer. The producer responsibility organisation, which works with PackUK to deliver the UK's packaging extended producer responsibility scheme, is moving from mobilisation into its…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (468+ words) Wool ropes are used once and processed into fertiliser with the crop still attached, removing the detergent wash and the end-of-life disposal that polyester lines require. Engineers at Queen's University Belfast have cultivated three commercial seaweed species on rope spun…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (351+ words) Fresh capital will scale Analyzer deployment across North America and Europe, as regulators and brands lean increasingly on AI-derived data to measure and price secondary materials. Greyparrot, the London-based AI waste intelligence company, has raised $27 million (£20 million) in Series B…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (409+ words) Incinerator operators get until 2034 to pay for all their emissions - three years after the UK scheme takes full effect. The 2031 start date is three years later than the 2028 timeline set out in the current ETS Directive, which required the Commission…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (404+ words) Reprocessing gap projected to reach 260,000 tonnes a year by 2040 puts pressure on government and Exchange for Change to act before the deposit return scheme launches in October 2027. The UK will need more than £750 million of investment in around 15 new PET…...