A new grant fund of between £50,000 – £100,000 has been launched by Hubbub and coffee giant Starbucks seeking to kickstart paper cup recycling activities across the UK. Here, Hubbub CEO and founder Trewin Restorick looks at the barriers to cup recycling.

Luke Prazsky, service director, waste resource management, Wardell Armstrong, looks at when waste “recovery” becomes waste “disposal”, saying the industry needs an even playing field and the previous regime “pulled the rug” from under inert landfill sites…