Resources
How bad is the situation?
- What’s the real Toll of Plastics on the Environment?
- Climate Impact of Plastics
- Pursuing and Achieving Sustainable Solutions for Plastics
- United Nations Environmental Program
- The UN Sustainable Development Goals
- A Guide to Greenwashing and How to Spot It
- How to avoid greenwashing through audits?
- How Greenwashing can be avoided through Transparency
- Greenwashing: Navigating the Risk
What can be done about it?
- The Future Looks Bright for Infinitely Recyclable Plastic
- What is Circularity
- Here’s what's needed to build a circular economy
- How to Start a Beyond Plastics Local Group
- Global Partners for Plastics Circularity
- Plastics and the Circular Economy – Deep Dive
- What’s the real Toll of Plastics on the Environment?
- Plastic Has A Big Carbon Footprint — But That Isn't The Whole Story
- U.S. Recycling Industry Is Struggling To Figure Out A Future Without China
- Working to end Single - Use Plastics
- Pathways towards circular plastics in Europe – Good Practice Examples from Countries, Businesses and Citizens
- Accelerating Plastic Circularity: A Critical Assessment of the Pathways and Processes to Circular Plastics
- Bioplastics for a circular economy
- Growing environmental footprint of plastics driven by coal combustion
- A Unique Moment in Time: Scaling Plastics Circularity
- The Circular Economy for Plastics
- How the World can end Plastic Pollution and Create a Circular Economy
- Chemical Recycling of Mixed Plastic Wastes by Pyrolysis – Pilot Scale Investigations
- Leveling the cost and carbon footprint of circular polymers that are chemically recycled to monomer
- EU plans tighter checks on plastic imports to support recycling industry
The European Union is planning stricter controls on plastic imports, including tougher documentation requirements, as it seeks to support domestic recycling plants facing rising costs and competition from cheaper overseas material. The European Commission said it would introduce tougher rules… Read more » - Plastic waste could be turned into anti-cancer drugs, researchers say
Scientists say a new chemical recycling method could convert everyday plastic waste into key ingredients used in cancer medicines, potentially reducing reliance on fossil-based materials. Researchers led by the University of St Andrews have discovered a way to turn household… Read more » - MPs and industry meet to address rise in lithium-ion battery fires
Parliamentarians, councils and industry representatives have met at Westminster to discuss the growing number of fires linked to discarded lithium-ion batteries, amid calls for stronger regulation and government support. A cross-sector group of parliamentarians, local government representatives and industry figures… Read more » - Recycling rates drop at Christmas as households struggle with festive waste, survey suggests
More than half of people say they recycle less over Christmas due to increased waste, confusion over collections and lack of space in bins, according to a new survey by a specialist waste management company. More than half of UK… Read more » - Northumberland man given suspended prison sentence for illegal waste site
A 30-year-old man has been given a suspended prison sentence after admitting to operating an illegal waste site on rural land in Northumberland, following a long-running investigation by the Environment Agency. A Northumberland man who dumped waste illegally on his… Read more » - Bin contamination fines cost Coventry City Council £900,000
Coventry City Council has incurred £900,000 in fines after non-recyclable waste was placed in recycling bins, contributing to a wider overspend in its city services budget, according to a council finance report. Coventry City Council’s city services department recorded a… Read more » - MEPs back scaling back of EU sustainability reporting and due diligence rulesThe European Parliament has approved an agreement with member states to narrow the scope of EU sustainability reporting and supply-chain due diligence rules, with new thresholds focusing obligations on larger firms and due diligence requirements delayed until July 2029.… Read more »
- Salvation Army Trading Company halts textile collections at HWRCs amid market pressures
The Salvation Army Trading Company has suspended the collection of donated textiles from household waste and recycling centres, citing rising donation volumes, increasing costs and wider economic pressures affecting the used clothing sector. The Salvation Army Trading Company (SATCoL)… Read more » - University secures £44,000 grant to study barriers to paper cup recycling
University College London has been awarded more than £44,000 through the National Cup Recycling Scheme’s Beyond the Bin fund to investigate why paper cups continue to be missed by mainstream recycling systems. University College London (UCL) has been named… Read more » - Lords write to environment secretary over “complacent” response to waste crime inquiry
The chair of the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee has written to environment secretary Emma Reynolds MP expressing “deep disappointment” at the government’s response to its waste-crime inquiry, and has invited her to give evidence to… Read more »
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