Organisation helping businesses and individuals reduce waste, develop sustainable products and use resources in an efficient way. The focus is on packaging, ...
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Thanks to the new signatories who have signed since its March launch, Courtauld 2025 now includes food & drink businesses representing 95% of the 2016 UK food retail market – as well as many leading brands, manufacturers and hospitality & food service companies. David Moon, head of su...
By 2025 packaging is designed to be recyclable, where practical and environmentally beneficial, and is labelled clearly to indicate whether it can be recycled or not. Every household in England can recycle a common set of dry recyclable materials and food waste, collected in one of th...
The ‘Framework for Greater Consistency in Household Recycling for England’ developed by an advisory group of representatives from across the sector2 , and supported by Defra and DCLG, offers the opportunity to increase recycling, improve the quality of recycled materials and offer a c...
Now in its 13th year Recycle Week is a celebration of recycling, with this year's theme being 'The Unusual Suspects'. The aim of the week is to encourage people to think about all those items that often get forgotten about when recycling at home. This year September will be a month of...
How will we achieve the targets? Courtauld 2025 signatories will inspire action and evoke change across four themes Embed new criteria into design, buying and sourcing Optimise whole supply chain to produce more with less Help people get more value from the food and drink they buy Fin...
New research reveals that over half of the food waste generated by the UK manufacturing and retail sectors is avoidable. WRAP’s Food Surplus and Waste Quantification report aims to improve the understanding of food surplus and food waste in the grocery supply chain. The report highlig...
‘Economic Growth Potential of More Circular Economies’ builds on the report published earlier this year, ‘ Employment and the Circular Economy – Job creation in a more resource efficient Britain ’ to show the picture across the EU. The study is the first that details the employment po...
Our new five year plan, ‘Resource Revolution, Creating the Future’ sets out how businesses, organisations and consumers can be part of a resource revolution that will re-invent, re-think and re-define how we use materials. It focuses on the three priority areas that will help best mee...
