During a debate between six MPs and Environment Minister Rebecca Pow in Parliament on the afternoon of 12 January, Elliot Colburn MP pushed for the need to ‘look further up the waste hierarchy’ to reduce the need for incineration across the UK.
With mandatory food waste collections now on the horizon decisions need to be made about collection and treatment. WRM Director Ben Brown considers what this means for the coming year
OOPS!, the new retail operation of frozen food supplier KPFF, has launched its first two stores in Preston and Bolton, with plans to roll out a further 30 stores around the UK in 2021.
With over half of the UK public agreeing that sustainability is a key factor in choosing the clothes they wear, WRAP has urged UK businesses to demonstrate their commitment to tackling the carbon footprint of producing clothes by joining Textiles 2030.
Green Alliance research finds that identifying and penalising producers of low-quality electronics could drive efficiencies annually worth up to 800,000 tonnes of avoided carbon dioxide equivalent emissions.
The Scottish Government’s public consultation on single-use plastics, which opened yesterday (12 October), aims to ban the sale of single-use plastics.
Thirty per cent fewer households will be going trick or treating this Halloween but 12.8 million pumpkins are still set to go to waste, reveals new research commissioned by environmental charity, Hubbub.
Latin America and the Caribbean must reconsider its economic model in order to fight the long-term impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new research paper by Chatham House.
WRAP will be dedicating a week in March 2021 to raising awareness of the environmental consequences of wasting food, involving retailers, local authorities, restaurants and manufacturers.
