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Waste & resource management

Single-use plastic items have become symbolic of the pandemic

In numbers: Tracking public attitudes to plastics during the pandemic

Cathedral City launches UK-wide recycling scheme for cheese packaging

Cathedral City has partnered with TerraCycle to launch a UK-wide recycling scheme for its plastic cheese packaging, which is not currently collected b...

Information on how to use the scheme will be provided online and on-pack. Image: TerraCycle

Cross-sector action needed to improve flexible plastics recycling

Cross-section action and government guidance are required to create a recycling system for flexible, low-value plastics such as bags and wrapping, acc...

Flexible plastics account for a quarter of all UK consumer plastic packaging by weight, but just 4% is recycled
Diageo has launched a new partnership with venture management firm Pilot Lite to launch Pulpex Limited, the company behind the sustainable packaging technology

Diageo unveils 'world's first' plastic-free, paper-based spirits bottle
Each of these success stories exemplifies how businesses are ramping up ambitions and actions in all areas of sustainable development 

Royal Mail's electric vans and Kering's biodiversity drive: The sustainability success stories of the week
Aldi UK & Ireland had previously set an ambition to use 25% less plastic packaging by volume by 2023

Aldi to halve plastic packaging use in the UK by 2025
Each of our four interviewees for this episode are driving plastic phase-outs within their own organisations

Sustainable Business Covered podcast: The Plastic-Free July special
Image: EA

Environment Agency unveils five-year plan to bolster 2030 net-zero target
Nearly half the global population are already living in potential water-scarce areas 

England at serious risk of water shortage by 2040, MPs warn
The new strategy purports to be aligned with the IPCC's recommendations on nature and climate. Image: Kimberly-Clark

Kimberly-Clark vows to halve environmental footprint within a decade
Each of these success stories exemplifies how businesses are ramping up ambitions and actions in all areas of sustainable development 

Spain's coal phase-out and Danone's carbon-neutral factory: The sustainability success stories of the week

As part of our Mission Possible campaign, edie brings you this weekly round-up of five of the best sustainability success stories of the week from acr...
The meat sector is widely regarded as a key contributor to emissions and one of the world's most exposed sectors to climate risks.

British meat giants adopt net-zero vision as investors warn of $11bn carbon tax bill for global meat sector
The world’s ecosystems have declined in size and condition by 47% globally compared to estimated baselines

UN: Finance giants must urgently set biodiversity targets and aim for 'net-positive'