UK supermarket chain Tesco has joined together with food sharing app OLIO to challenge excess food waste and provide for local communities.
A trial was held earlier this year that saw OLIO and Tesco work together in 250 stores. Over the six months they managed to save nearly 195,000 portions of food and feed nearly 4,200 people.
Developing sustainable fabrics, boosting textile recycling and bringing textile manufacturing jobs back to the UK are some of the key recommendations put forward in a new parliamentary report compiled by behaviour change charity Hubbub on sustainable fashion.
Behaviour change charity Hubbub has launched its Greenprint for a Better Britain plan to call for a sustainable Covid-19 recovery with policy recommendations targeting food waste, transport, textiles and recycling.
UK supermarket Tesco has teamed up with behaviour change charity to launch its ‘No Time for Waste Challenge’, which will target the 6.6 million tonnes of food waste generated by UK households each year.
Though cycling is seen as the ideal form of green transport, millions of bike tyres and inner tubes are thrown away every year in the UK. Is it possible to dispose of these items in an environmentally friendly way?
A pilot project by packaging company Dow aims to collect and recycle Nigeria’s plastic waste, diverting around 300 million plastic waste sachets away from landfill.
94 per cent of Amazon shoppers in the UK are concerned about plastic pollution and want plastic-free packaging options, according to a new survey by ocean conservation organisation Oceana.
With only four per cent of soft flexible plastic packaging currently recycled, a new roadmap has been released by WRAP to create a circular economy for these materials.
Diageo has announced the creation of its first plastic-free bottle for spirits made from sustainably-sourced pulp in a statement made by the beverage company yesterday (13 July).
85 per cent of Brits believe that food packaging should be compostable, with two thirds of those asked agreeing that the food industry should lead the move towards compostable packaging, according to the results of a new Populus poll released today (8 July).
A group of 119 experts and scientists have signed a statement reassuring the public that reusable containers are safe to use during the Covid-19 pandemic, provided hygiene measures are followed.
New guidance has been published by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) pressing retailers and businesses to look beyond the best before date to increase the amount of food available for redistribution.
On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Jane Asscher, CEO and Co-founder of behaviour change agency 23red, looks at how brands and businesses can help consumers to make sustainable choices in a post-coronavirus world.
The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has expanded the scope of its Food Waste Reduction Roadmap to provide growers with advice on food surplus and waste on farms.
The Bio-based and Biodegradable Industries Association (BBIA) has called on Tesco to change its approach to compostables after the supermarket chain included all compostable materials in its list of packaging that should not be used.
A series of polls have found significant public support in Nordic countries for the ‘variable’ deposit return scheme (DRS) model, where the deposit fee is determined by the container’s size and material.
