Angus Council has acquired a new green waste shredder from CRJ Services that allows the council to shred almost three times more green waste as previously.

A new study shows UK households throw away seven million tonnes of edible food each year, costing £9.7 billion.

New figures from WRAP reveal that 3.6 million tonnes of food surplus and waste is generated in primary production every year at a huge financial cost to the UK economy.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has announced new joint business and government investment in R&D around new forms of packaging made from plants, wood chippings and food waste.

A majority of the British public wants all food packaging to be made 100 per cent recyclable anywhere in the country, according to a survey commissioned by WRAP and INCPEN.

Exeter City Council has announced plans to introduce kerbside collections for glass and food recycling.

The Committee on Climate Change says the UK should bring forward a ban on biodegradable waste to landfill to 2025 after a new report published by the Committee revealed the UK to be ‘lagging far behind’ on efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

UK food technology company It’s Fresh! has signed an agreement with the Ecuadorian banana association, ACORBANEC, to increase the use of its innovative technology which prolongs the green life of bananas.

Scotland has increased its food waste recycling by 40 per cent between 2013 and 2017, saving thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions, according to new reports published by Zero Waste Scotland.

Research from food waste app Too Good To Go reveals that a third of ‘meal prep’ dishes are thrown away due to uncertainty over how long they can be kept for.