Environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy is launching its Centre for Social Innovation to develop new approaches to solving litter and waste problems.

Liz Goodwin has been recognised with an OBE ‘for services to Business Resource Efficiency and the Environment’ in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2015.

World Child Cancer CEO will take on the same role at environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy in August.

A new pilot scheme announced by Tesco, in partnership with charity FareShare and social enterprise FoodCloud, will see the supermarket’s surplus food sent to charities instead of landfill.

West Scotland MSP Stuart McMillan has written to the Scottish Government calling on it to ban large supermarkets from disposing of unsold food items.

French supermarkets will no longer be able to destroy or dispose of unused food, after the French National Assembly passes new amendments to a green energy law.

A round-up of business news from the waste and resources sector, including Keep Britain Tidy, Biogen, EPRO, and ReFood.

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has launched a new £300,000 fund for London boroughs wishing to create ‘social supermarkets’ to reduce food waste and support those in food poverty.

WRAP has announced the appointment of Robert Longley-Cook, Chief Executive of Hft, to its Board of Trustees.

Friends of the Earth Europe, part of the world’s largest environmental network, represents 31 national organisations and thousands of local groups at European level. Libby Peake caught up with its Resource Use Campaigner, Ariadna Rodrigo