Organics

Resource talks to Iain Pickles, Head of Sales at Biogen, about the state of the organics recycling market and its future outlook.

Every year we throw away millions of tonnes of wrapping paper, decorations, food and other debris left over from the Christmas festivities. If you’re struggling to know what to do with your waste, check out Resource’s short recycling guide.

Local authorities will be given “hundreds of millions of pounds” in order to help them boost their recycling rates and waste management performance following the publication of the Resources and Waste Strategy, Environment Secretary Michael Gove told MPs yesterday.

Plans to introduce separate food waste collections to every household in England by 2023 and ensure producers pay for the costs of managing their waste packaging have been included in the long-awaited Resources and Waste Strategy.

The UK Government has released its Bioeconomy Strategy, which outlines how the UK can build a world-class bioeconomy by 2030 and lead the way in easing the reliance on fossil resources.

WasteMaster from Green Eco Technologies reduces and converts food and other organic waste, on site, for recycling and reuse as green energy and other useful products.

Environmental consultancy firm Aqua Enviro is hosting a one-day event in London to explore the potential for future subsidy-free anaerobic digestion in the UK.

Two workshops on food waste at the 2018 LARAC conference showed UK anaerobic digestion operator Biogen that there is will from residents to get on board with food waste recycling.

On World Food Day (16 October) we take a look at some of the tech companies making it easier for individuals and businesses to reduce their food waste.