Resource talks to Entomics co-founder Matt McLaren about the origins of the Cambridge-based start-up’s insect-derived protein product it hopes will provide another solution to the world’s growing food waste problem.

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.

Businesses from the Consumer Goods Forum and Champions 12.3 coalition have issued a call to action to simplify and standardise food date labels worldwide by 2020 in a bid to reduce food waste as Champions 12.3 releases a progress report on global efforts to reduce food waste.

Cardiff faces fines of up to £21 million unless it takes action to recycle an additional 32,000 tonnes of waste a year in order to meet its 2020 recycling target of 64 per cent.

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.

WRAP is calling for local and national organisations to join it in taking joined-up action to help residents cut food waste as it starts a new phase in the organisation’s consumer food waste prevention strategy.

A round-up of the more quirky stories from the world of waste and resources.

How could increase food waste collections help to boost the anaerobic digestion sector?

A team from the University of the West of England has successfully carried out a field test of a urine-powered form of electricity generation in a remote rural location in Uganda.

Starbucks UK will, from today, be selling selected food items at a 50 per cent discount during the last hour of service in its UK stores, with all proceeds going to food charity Action Against Hunger.