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Supermarket to use more alternative materials and refillable containers by 2025
Tetra Pak’s innovation overtook the glass bottle but it needs to be improved
The sharply reduced trade in waste could boost efforts towards reuse
Billions in investment needed to process expected surge in household waste
As consumers reject single-use items, the sector predicts rising demand and huge expansion
Environmental damage is shifting from an externality to a business cost
Technologies will stem trash tides but as a source of renewable energy their utility is limited
Environmentally friendly paper packaging described as ‘world first’ technology
Junta-era rules are business-friendly but environmentalists object to lax monitoring of imports
Big jewellery brands and boutiques are turning to e-waste to source their materials
Transition creates opportunities for the nation’s declining paper industry
Repatriation is victory for Duterte and signifies growing push against developed world’s waste
Country is latest in south-east Asia to clamp down on rubbish imports
Ingenuity harnessed to tackle planet’s widespread environmental problems
Straws, drink stirrers and cotton buds to be banned from April 2020
Converting trash to energy could provide a solution to a problem that blights our oceans
Investment groups to challenge companies over packaging and recycling standards
Beaches on Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean covered with litter
Environmental concerns lose out to industrial needs as economy’s appetite grows
Shares drop sharply as waste management group cuts earnings and dividend
Sweden is an unlikely net importer of combustible waste
The FT’s Leslie Hook on rethinking a $200bn industry
Vince Cable says sale of GIB was ‘totally unnecessary and damaging’
Meet the fashion innovators turning plastic pollutants into stylish new products
China no longer processes the world's recycling
