Tesco publishes its food waste data for the eighth year, revealing the supermarket and its international suppliers have cut 200,000 tonnes of food waste from their combined operations.

Global food waste report names the UK an exemplar in the growing challenge to hit Sustainable Development Goal 12.3, as Food Waste Reduction Roadmap exceeds 210 food businesses.

The UK should price emissions from waste disposal, including landfill and incineration, to help reach the country’s target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, according to a new white paper by the Zero Carbon Campaign.

64 per cent of UK residents would like to see manufacturers pay for recycling instead of local authorities, according to a YouGov poll commissioned by UK waste management company Viridor.

Dr Antonio Espingardeiro, IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers member, describes how robots and AI are revolutionising the recycling sector.

Two former directors of an Essex waste site have been fined £22,000 and £19,000 for exceeding waste permit and disposing the wrong type of waste into a landfill.

The final survey from The Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT) on the impacts of Covid-19 on local authority waste services in England shows services continuing to return to normal, though disruption continues.

Zero Waste Scotland has announced that Scotland’s waste-related carbon emissions for 2018 have fallen to 30 per cent below the 2011 baseline, but warns there is still ‘more to be done’ to reach the net-zero greenhouse gases target by 2045.

Research funding launched by Material Focus aims to find solutions to address the 500,000 tonnes of electrical waste lost each year.

The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) has announced that it will be partnering with the Circular Economy Club (CEC) to promote its circular economy certificate.