Better food packaging is helping consumers waste less food, says a new WRAP survey

WRAP has announced that food waste collection services for businesses will increase after seven waste collection contractors are awarded funding.

Gardeners in Bedford Borough Council can receive free compost produced from local food and waste collections until October 2012

At the risk of preaching to the converted, I should start by saying how excited I am to be writing this article on composting. No, honestly, I am – that’s the problem.

In our industry obsession with quality, we must not forget about biowaste. Tony Breton of Novamont takes a look at an Italian example.

Viridor has begun construction of a £10 million food waste recycling facility at its Walpole landfill site near Bridgewater in Somerset

Nobody likes to waste food, and yet we all do it – most of us in vast quantities and at great cost to the environment and our pockets. In the first of a two-part article, Libby Peake learns why, and how we can stop

Bristol is to utilise the power of renewable energy, having gained permission to build a 150MW dedicated biomass power station at Royal Portbury Dock in the Port of Bristol, North Somerset.

Plastic – love it or loathe it, there’s no getting away from it in today’s society. Or is there? In recent years, a new crop of materials, similar in technical properties to their traditional counterparts yet completely biodegradable and compostable, has sprung up.

In the second installment of our three-part series on renewable energy, Will Simpson considers some of the options available for harnessing the power of biodegradable waste