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The cost of needlessly wasted food to UK households is £10 billion a year, £2 billion higher than previously estimated according to new research published today by WRAP.

More than six out of every ten people (61% or 25.5 million) people in England are now committed recyclers, according to new research revealed by Recycle Now, the national recycling campaign for England.

Due to the huge success of its battery recycling scheme, Harlow Council has today announced that the initiative will be extended throughout the town.

Sainsbury's is trialling its own label PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) wine bottle in a project supported by the government funded Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP).

Environmental and Corporate Social Responsibility policies are becoming increasingly influential and are key drivers in the decisions of print and paper buyers according to new research by the WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) Recycled Paper Advocacy Team.

Nine of the UK's biggest brand owners and manufacturers, including Coca-Cola, Nestlé and Cadbury Schweppes, are the latest to sign up to the Courtauld Commitment, which aims to reduce the amount of packaging waste that ends up in the household bin.

Plans to reduce red tape and make it easier to turn millions of tonnes of common types of industrial and commercial waste, such as steel slag and old plasterboard, into useable new materials were announced by the Environment Agency and WRAP.

Seventeen local authorities across England will trial new food waste collection services to help determine the best way of diverting this waste from landfill. WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) is keen to establish the most convenient way for people to take part in this new service.

The findings from a large scale trial into the commercial viability of producing recycled plastic milk bottles from food-grade High-density polyethylene are being made freely available by WRAP.