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In recent years the UK has witnessed a trend for companies racing to claim their zero waste to landfill status.

However, dig below the surface and it is often the case that ‘zero waste to landfill’ is achieved by switching from one form of disposal (landfill) to another (Energy ...

Phase 3 of the Courtauld Commitment was launched at the beginning of May and one of the targets is to ‘improve packaging design through the supply chain to maximise recycled content, improve recyclability, while ensuring there is no increase in the carbon impact of packaging’. So how do companies achieve ...

Imagine the reaction if it was revealed that within the UK we are mining a valuable resource, which could create jobs and wealth in the UK economy, but instead of that we exported the resource as a lower value product. Alternatively, imagine a process which had been allowed to become ...

Research recently carried out by Valpak suggests that consumer plastic bottle recycling rates in the UK could be higher than previously believed, due to a lower than anticipated quantity of plastic used in bottles in the last five to seven years. Whilst plastic bottle recycling rates have been growing, the ...

Brazil is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. It generated around 62 million tonnes of solid waste in 2011, an increase of 1.8% from the previous year. Valpak found this a good opportunity to undertake a study in Brazil to assess the implications of the new national ...