The latest update on recycling trials carried out in Fife, including the first monthly residual waste collection in Great Britain, shows higher recycling rates in trial areas.

A recent study of the introduction of pay-as-you-throw schemes in France shows such schemes result in a reduction in residual waste and an increased recycling rate.

A second reading to Parliament of the Food Waste (Reduction) Bill has again been postponed after the Friday sitting of the House of Commons failed to reach it on the agenda.

London is to collaborate with Amsterdam and Copenhagen to develop practical projects that will accelerate the circular economy.

A task force will be established to raise awareness of the benefits of the circular economy throughout the Welsh supply chain, says Welsh Minister for Natural Resources Carl Sargeant.

SUEZ has been appointed to carry out an enhanced recycling service in East Devon after the ‘enormous success’ of a three-weekly trial.

Britain’s retailers are on track to meet voluntary targets to cut the environmental impact of their operations by 2020, according to the British Retail Consortium.

Following the Scottish Government’s adoption of a food waste reduction target, Approved Foods has warned that consumer confusion with labelling systems is leading people to throw away perfectly good food.

A supermarket selling only surplus food from other stores at reductions of up to half price has opened in Copenhagen.

A switch to four-weekly collections will not go ahead in the North Wales county of Conwy after its council’s cabinet voted against the proposal, calling monthly collection ‘a bridge too far’.