In what is being billed as ‘an excellent example of circular economy in practice’, enzymes will be used to convert unsorted household waste into biogas at a ‘bio plant’ in Cheshire.

Pollution caused by anaerobic digestion plants in Bedfordshire and Devon have seen the Environment Agency secure fines for negligent mismanagement.

Improving the monitoring and data collection of food waste and loss is key to providing better insight into the scale and causes of the problem, according to the European Council.

Liz Goodwin will join the World Resources Institute in September as a Senior Fellow and Director after leaving WRAP this week.

Research into converting waste potatoes into gels that could be used in pharmaceutical, beauty and home products is seeking to turn the millions of tonnes of vegetables thrown away each year into a manufacturing resource.

Two Northern Irish AD plants have received government-backed funds for pioneering work using poultry litter.

A crowdfunded project to ‘redesign the coffin’ into a pod that grows into a tree has reached 30 per cent of its goal, with 10 days left to pledge

The EU’s Committee of Regions has called for the EU to adopt a common food waste reduction target to meet the economic, environmental and social challenges caused by the waste.

Revellers attending Glastonbury this weekend will be able to test-run a urinal that hopes to bring sustainable power to refugee camps.

Tesco Chief Dave Lewis has called on other companies to be more transparent about their food waste, after the store recorded significant increases in its own figures.