A new EU-funded behaviour change programme is aiming to cut down on the 540,000 tonnes of avoidable food waste created in London households every year and save residents of the capital £330 million along the way.

97 per cent of businesses think they are fulfilling their legal waste obligations, despite the fact that nearly half are risking prosecution through non-compliance, a survey of SMEs has found.

Companies and councils with ‘outstanding projects, innovation or successful resource management endeavours’ have until Friday to apply for a 2016 CIWM Sustainability and Resource Award [http://www.ciwm.co.uk/ciwm/events/sustainability-and-resource-awards-2016/ciwm/events/sustainability-and-resource-awards-2016/home.aspx?hkey=3f7f4c7a-453e-4011-abd9-8ffa932e9328].

A project to help smaller businesses to enter the circular economy and develop more sustainable and profitable business operations has kicked off in Wales.

Simon Hann introduces Eunomia’s fourth Local Authority Recycling Carbon Index, examining one of recycling’s key achievements: carbon reduction

Using hydrogen as fuel could, in theory, shrink transport emissions to nearly zero. It might sound too good to be true, but strides are already being made to bring it to the world of waste and recycling.

Best known as home to the rich and famous of the film-making industry, Los Angeles is, it turns out, quite committed to the idea of zero waste.

The government will hold a consultation later this year to consider how best to ban the tiny fragments of plastic used as exfoliants in cosmetic products, with the hope of finalising a ban sometime in 2017.

Since January this year, the market town of Swadlincote has been testing out ideas for preventing household food waste, with £1 million in investment from Sainsbury’s. Libby Peake visits the town to see how it’s all going

An innovative road recycling technique has been used to rebuild a main road in Somerset in the fraction of the time that traditional relaying techniques.