Karen Cannard, co-founder of The Rubbish Diet [http://www.therubbishdiet.org.uk], shares her experience of working behind the scenes on Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s new BBC programme.

The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment UK is to become joint owner of OPRL Ltd, which runs the UK’s on-pack recycling label scheme.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including the Clean Britain Awards, Christmas jumper upcycling and electrical appliance reuse.

Adaptavate has been named as the 2015 winner of the Green Alley Award, a European circular economy prize.

MetalMatters, the industry-funded recycling campaign, will reach over half a million UK households in 2015, it says.

The Sustainable Clothing Action Plan has seen UK brands cut water impacts by 12.5 per cent per tonne of clothing since 2013, though waste arisings have not fallen, WRAP announced today.

Natural Resources Wales has served an enforcement notice on the owners of bales of waste being stored at Swansea Docks, after months of complaints over their smell.

There were five fatal injuries in the waste sector in 2014/15, taking the five-year total since 2009/10 to 37, according to statistics released by the Health and Safety Executive.

A West Sussex waste management company has been fined £65,000 after an employee died and another was left seriously injured when they fell nine metres from the bucket of an excavator.

More ‘wonky’ fruit and vegetables will be sold in Asda stores after the retailer announced this week that its ‘Beautiful on the Inside’ range is to be extended.