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Report•
7th Oct, 2025

5 principles to create value from circularity

Our latest report explores five principles that explain how to define the benefits of circularity, measure progress correctly and establish the concept as a business-wide...
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Report•
11th Dec, 2025

Building resilient agricultural supply chains

Our latest report sets out a practical pathway to help businesses turn regenerative ambition into action.
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Insight•
27th May, 2025

In depth: Identifying the levers for change in the UK waste sector

Discover how we helped Reconomy define strategic principles to accelerate the UK’s circular economy transition.

Plastics and Packaging posts

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By Sancroft Team•
4th Mar, 2019

Part 3 | The Changing Face of Fashion: The Plastics Agenda

The final part of our fashion series takes a deeper dive into what the plastics problem means for the fashion industry. While 2018 was certainly...
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By Sancroft Team•
21st Feb, 2019

Resources & Waste Strategy Consultations Now Open: Key debates and next steps for business

Defra’s Resources and Waste strategy, which we have summarised before [click here], set an ambitious vision for a world-leading system that reduces waste and fundamentally...
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By Sancroft Team•
21st Dec, 2018

Sancroft’s take on the Resources & Waste Strategy: What does this mean for business?

Defra’s Resources and Waste Strategy (RWS) has been long-awaited. Published earlier this week, the 140-page report sets out a vision for consistent waste management and...
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By Sancroft Team•
30th Oct, 2018

UK Budget 2018: Plastics & Packaging

Aside from the usual goodies of another freeze on alcohol duty, a little bit more for the NHS, and an adjustment of the lowest threshold...
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By Sancroft Team•
29th Oct, 2018

How Business Can Tackle Plastic Pollution: Key Takeaways

Amid increasing attention from the media, public, government and industry, Innovation Forum hosted the event “How business can tackle plastic pollution”.  The event, sponsored by...
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By Sancroft Team•
20th Sep, 2018

One year on from Blue Planet II: What’s changed for plastics?

2017 was the year that ocean plastics, and the corresponding damage they cause, entered mainstream public consciousness. Approximately eight billion tonnes of plastic has been...
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By Sancroft Team•
13th Jun, 2018

Investor interest in the current plastics agenda | An Interview with Lord Deben & Alison Hampton

A discussion with our Chairman, Lord Deben, and Sancroft Advisor, Alison Hampton, on investor interest in the current plastics agenda.
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By Sancroft Team•
22nd May, 2018

Microfibre pollution: Opportunities for a coordinated industry response

The pollution of the marine environment from macro-plastic litter has risen rapidly in the political agenda and in the public consciousness in the past few...
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By Sancroft Team•
29th Jan, 2018

Overcoming the scourge of packaging and plastic waste

David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II has highlighted the detrimental environmental impact of the vast quantity of plastic waste in our oceans to millions of viewers....
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By Felix Gummer•
7th Jul, 2017

Waste: Are you throwing your profit in the bin?

I have always disliked the word ‘waste’.  Used in most contexts, such as government or talent and ‘waste’ or ‘wasted’ is rightly seen as unacceptable,...