Plastic pollution campaign group City to Sea has announced that the Refill movement, which encourages people to use a refillable water bottle, is launching a new pilot with retailers including Costa Coffee, Morrisons and LEON that will show consumers where they can refill their coffee cups and lunch boxes.
The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has published its latest Retail Survey, revealing the progress made by supermarkets in improving food labelling and packaging.
Sadie Westwood, Business Director at creative agency 23red, discusses how communications campaigns should make use of nudges and targeted messaging to encourage people to waste less food.
Food waste fighting app Too Good To Go has announced that it has helped save one million meals from waste nationwide, preventing an estimated 2,500 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
With a report published today (24 September) suggesting that insufficient data will cause the UK to miss the goal of halving food waste by 2030, Tesco has called for the government to introduce mandatory food waste reporting.
The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has announced that 121 food businesses are implementing its ‘Target, Measure, Act’ strategy to reduce food waste.
The World Biogas Association (WBA), the trade body for the biogas industry, has issued a series of recommendations on how governments, financial institutions and other key decision-makers can support the industry in fulfilling its decarbonisation potential.
Statistics from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency reveal that Scotland’s household recycling rate for 2018 has fallen by 0.9 per cent, though the carbon impact of Scottish household waste has also fallen once again.
Scottish businesses have been at the forefront of the circular economy in recent years, and Ogilvy Spirits has been particularly innovative in this regard, turning waste potatoes into vodka, as Imogen Benson reports.
Californian fruit preservation company Apeel Sciences has announced that it is trialling its edible fruit coating technology in Asda, to reduce the amount of fruit and vegetables thrown away.
Angus Council has acquired a new green waste shredder from CRJ Services that allows the council to shred almost three times more green waste as previously.
New figures from WRAP reveal that 3.6 million tonnes of food surplus and waste is generated in primary production every year at a huge financial cost to the UK economy.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has announced new joint business and government investment in R&D around new forms of packaging made from plants, wood chippings and food waste.
A majority of the British public wants all food packaging to be made 100 per cent recyclable anywhere in the country, according to a survey commissioned by WRAP and INCPEN.
