As government confirms it will scrap the pre-accreditation for the feed-in tariff, ADBA’s Charlotte Morton explains the potential benefits that anaerobic digestion can bring, and calls on government to increase (or reinstate) support for the industry.

An ‘urgent response’ is needed to the 10 billion tonnes of urban waste that is produced globally each year, says the United Nations Environment Programme.

The Food Waste (Reduction) Bill introduced to Parliament by MP Kerry McCarthy has been given a second reading, to be held in January.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency is to begin a consultation process looking at improvements to Scotland’s compliance assessment scheme for environmental permits.

The Department for Transport has awarded £25 million in funding to three projects creating biofuel from residual, whisky and forestry waste, to help decarbonise the transport sector.

A funding pot of £775,000 has been established to help local authorities increase the collection, reuse and recycling of unwanted electrical items.

The Department for Communities and Local Government is set to abandon its campaign for weekly waste collections due departmental spending cuts, according to reports.

The use of single-use carrier bags in Wales has dropped by 71 per cent since a charge was introduced in 2011, raising up to £22 million in the process, says a new Welsh Government report.

Kerry McCarthy, Labour MP for Bristol East, will introduce a bill to Parliament next week to address the unsustainable levels of waste within the food industry.

If the 2.6 million tonnes of refuse-derived fuel exported from the UK in 2014 were processed domestically, it would contribute just 0.8 per cent to renewable electricity generation, says a new RDF Export Industry Group report.