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    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      News in-depth
      EU lawmakers back plan to cut packaging waste

      Brussels’ proposals led many industries from plastic producers to Camembert makers to push for exemptions

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    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Plastic pollution
      Oil producers accused of stalling progress on plastics pollution treaty

      Countries including Saudi Arabia, Russia and Iran push for waste management rather than curbing plastic production

      Person in boat clears plastic waste from a canal
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      Differences over Israel-Hamas war cloud Erdoğan visit to Berlin Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: How Brussels is working to defuse cheesemakers’ concerns over packaging rules

    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      FT SeriesTech Champions
      Too Good to Go sees food waste as opportunity that’s too good to miss

      The Danish start-up helps businesses and consumers make ends meet — while tackling a global problem

      A worker in a sandwich bar hands a woman a green Too Good to Go ‘surprise bag’
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      Helen Thomas
      The UK is doing the right thing in steel — just badly

      Cutting carbon emissions is the correct path but the sector also needs a strategy to recycle scrap metal

      Steel plant with smoking chimneys silhouetted against a sunset
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Work WatchHenry Mance
      Office recycling bins turn us into monsters

      There are psychological reasons why people fail to do this basic task at work

      FT montage of flames coming out of a recycling bin
    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      News in-depthElectric vehicles
      US auto salvage industry braced for impending bounty of junk EVs

      Companies that wrench apart and shred old cars prepare for ‘fundamental shift in recycling’

    • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
      Europe Express
      Packaging industry decries confusing EU recycling rules Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Why Hungary’s Orbán has forgotten his dislike of academia over the Nobel Prizes

      Pears, in a plastic punnet
    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      LexPlastic pollution
      Recycling: plastics are a bottle neck in the war on waste Premium content

      The rush to meet self-imposed targets on reduction and reuse has yielded few results

    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Nuclear energy
      Will Britons accept burying nuclear waste in their backyard?

      People in Lincolnshire are divided about the case for an underground disposal facility for radioactive material

      Ken Smith, chair of the Guardians of the East Coast
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Scotland
      Scotland recycling failure doubles National Investment Bank losses

      Collapse of company set up to administer project leads to £4.5mn writedowns

      A grocery store customer puts an empty plastic bottle into the recycling bank
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Lego
      Lego ditches oil-free brick in sustainability setback

      World’s biggest toymaker says new material made from recycled bottles would have bigger carbon footprint

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    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Emma Jacobs
      Oh no, not more tech stuff!

      The short-term pain of accommodating new gear such as Apple’s USB-C charger may make sense in the long run, but I really resent it

      A USB-C plug reflects in an Apple logo. When you next go to buy an Apple product, why not reframe the transaction as your decision to bequeath the company some money?
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      Aurubis AG
      Aurubis: green aims blackened in recycling scandal

      The potential for fraud will not diminish given growing recycling requirements

      An excavator grabs copper scrap for recycling at the Aurubis metals plant in Hamburg, Germany
    • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
      UK infrastructure
      Victorian sewers not to blame for England’s pollution, research shows

      Water company excuses for spills debunked by findings that most infrastructure was built in 20th century

      Waste water flows from an outflow pipe on Pagham Beach in Bognor Regis
    • Friday, 4 August, 2023
      Moral Money
      Big Plastic’s pivot to offsets Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, lessons from Florida for the world of biodiversity credits

      A plastic grinding machine
    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
      UK politics
      UK government says energy certificates need ‘fundamental reform’ in latest green shift

      Ministers aim to help landlords with environmental obligations as they also delay recycling scheme

    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      Moral Money
      Why investors are calling DIBs on a new kind of bond Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, why US solar panel installations could jump this year

      Staff at a Wecyclers recycling facility
    • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
      UK politics
      UK set to push back new recycling scheme amid industry concerns

      Environmental groups criticise prospect of delay to packaging waste initiative

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    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      Special ReportFT Business School Insights
      Researchers’ recipe for cutting restaurant food waste

      Business school academics studied how to tackle lost nutrition and climate impact

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    • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
      LexRetail & Consumer industry
      Fast fashion: EU recycling plan unravels on thorny externalities Premium content

      The timid proposals highlight a broader problem

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    • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
      Moral Money
      Trash talk: US recycling set to surge Premium content

      Plus, the transatlantic divide in ESG bond fund flows

      Crushed plastic waste
    • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
      Special ReportJapan and Sustainability
      Companies tap Niigata prefecture’s traditional sustainability

      Rice-based plastics and natural snow cooling systems offer ways to help meet climate goals

      A farmer hangs bound rice to dry at the Hoshitoge rice terraces in Tokamachi, Niigata, Japan
    • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
      Special ReportJapan and Sustainability
      Colourful facade hides flaws in Japan’s ‘green’ waste policy

      The country’s incinerators turn much of its rubbish into electricity — and greenhouse gases

      A garbage transport truck parked in front of a waste disposal plant in Japan
    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      UK politics
      Waste reduction plans in England ‘do not exist’, watchdog warns

      Four years after outlining ambitious targets ministers have made little progress

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