Tesco has announced partnership agreements with 24 of its largest food suppliers obliging them to commit to halving food waste by 2030 and to publish food waste data from their own operations.

Waste management company Viridor has released its Sustainability Report 2017, outlining the progress the company has made in relation to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, including its investment in Energy-from-Waste facilities to provide clean and affordable energy.

Three days at RWM 2017 in Birmingham last week gave us plenty of time to peruse the many exhibits on show. Here are six of the best new products that impressed us.

Tech company Rubicon Global, a start-up dubbed the ‘Uber of waste’ has been valued at $1 billion following a $50-million investment from Mexican private equity firm Promecap.

Viridor has announced that it hopes to have developed a robot capable of performing a quality control picker function at a MRF within the next year.

Jaguar Land Rover Automotive plc. have found a way to implement a circular supply chain for aluminium for car bodies, by recycling the metal from end-of-life vehicles to be used in the manufacture of new cars.

The Green Investment Bank has made its first investment in its new guise, providing £38 million to the Ferrybridge Multifuel 2 incinerator in West Yorkshire.

Plastics reprocessor REGAIN Polymers has been sold to Imerys Group, a multinational supplier of mineral-based solutions based in Paris.

A new green gas generation facility under construction at Marston Gate in Swindon is to commercially produce bio-substitute natural gas (BioSNG) from household waste.

Groups from across the waste industry have warned that proposed Environment Agency changes to waste wood classification could reduce the UK’s recycling rate by two to six per cent a year.