EAC Chair Mary Creagh and four other politicians are to test the Winnow food waste smart meter in their homes as part of the ongoing Sainsbury’s Waste less, Save more initiative.

A round up of news from the waste and resources sector including funding for community projects in Northern Ireland, ethical business accreditation to a UK mattress company, a charity Christmas jumper swap, and more.

Tesco and Sainsbury’s, two of the UK’s largest supermarkets, have pledged to ban plastic cotton buds and will replace plastic stems with paper in their own brand products by the end of 2017.

A Welsh hospital group is trialling an innovative recycling process of sterilisation wrap, diverting tonnes of medical waste from incineration every month.

Tesco has rolled out a new crowdfunding platform, BackIt, to help small businesses and entrepreneurs gain funding for their food waste-reducing ideas.

A new report by Eunomia Research & Consulting suggests that investment in advanced conversion technologies (ACTs) may still be beneficial, despite the technology’s mixed track record.

Composite materials like fibreglass are strong, durable and light. The trouble is, they’re not very easy to handle at their end of life.

Costa Coffee is launching a nationwide recycling scheme to recover and recycle more of its takeaway cups, but only those that have been left in stores.

Bristol City Council has launched a campaign in a bid to make Bristol measurably cleaner by 2020, in partnership with its arms-length Bristol Waste Company.

Europe has reached a ‘turning point’ in the ‘absurd unethical and anti-economic situation’ of food waste, according to Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis.