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From the start of next year, all ACE UK recycling banks will accept paper cups for recycling

Starbucks and McDonald's among members of new paper cup recycling deal

Pret A Manger trials plastic bottle alternatives across select stores

Pret A Manger is looking to reduce the number of plastic bottles sold at its outlets and on the high streets, by offering free filtered water and reus...

Pret wants consumers to provide feedback on the initiative, which offers two sizes of reusable glass bottles

New M&S menswear suit crafted with recycled wool

Marks & Spencer (M&S) has launched a new menswear wool blend suit made with 55% recycled wool, which includes materials donated in-store by it...

The suits will be made with wool that M&S customers have donated through the retailer’s Shwopping clothes recycling scheme with Oxfam
Office of Budgetary Responsibility (OBR) economic forecasts are set to reveal that productivity growth has been far worse than expected

Business coalition calls for resource efficiency drive to boost weak UK productivity
Nearly eight million metric tonnes of plastic packaging weight – equivalent to the weight of 2,000 Eiffel Towers – ends up in the oceans each year

Plastic packaging: Are producers ready for their 'diesel moment'?
The partnership could help to significantly reduce the 650,000 plastic bottled drinks used at University of Reading’s campus each year

Smart Coca-Cola dispensers to help university students slash soft drinks packaging
P&G formed a partnership with recycling experts TerraCycle to create viable solutions for the plastics that are collected

How P&G formed a new supply chain to combat ocean plastics

At present, only about 6% of plastic waste is recycled within the EU

EU rules out tax on plastic products to reduce waste
‘Plasticus’ - a 10 metre whale made from the same amount of plastic that enters the ocean every second - toured the UK as part of Sky's Ocean Rescue campaign

Sky to ban single-use plastics by 2020
This summer, C&A became the first global retailer to launch Gold level Cradle to Cradle (C2C) certified t-shirts

Cradle to Cradle: How C&A is leading the fashion industry's circular transition
Evidence submitted will be examined by the Government’s working group which includes corporate giants such as Coca-Cola and Tesco

Michael Gove seeks evidence on plastic bottle deposit scheme

Defra Secretary Michael Gove has confirmed he will work with businesses to see how a drinks container deposit return scheme could work in England....

EXCLUSIVE: edie Explains guide to greening your office published
Proportionally, coffee cups account for a tiny percentage of total UK litter; just 0.7%

Pret A Manger's head of sustainability questions MP's coffee cup inquiry

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