The Derbyshire town of Swadlincote has been chosen as Sainsbury’s ‘trial town’ where innovative projects to reduce food waste will be tested over the next year.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including rugby hoarding recycling, zero landfill restaurants and can recycling in forecourts.

A fleet of biogas-fuelled buses could be running in Bristol as early as next year as part of an initiative to improve air quality in the city.

A new project by the Centre for Process Innovation is developing the use of modified strains of microorganisms to manufacture bioplastics from organic waste products.

Arsenal and France midfielder Mathieu Flamini has revealed that he is one of the people behind a bio-based company that has developed a process to produce levulinic acid on an industrial scale.

The sharing economy is growing exponentially, but what, exactly, is it growing into? Libby Peake investigates.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including FoodCycle’s Breadline Challenge, meat in cardboard bins and a profit warning for Sims.

The worldwide production capacity of bio-based polymers will triple from 5.7 million tonnes in 2014 to nearly 17 million tonnes in 2020, according to a new market study by the nova-Institute.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including the Clean Britain Awards, Christmas jumper upcycling and electrical appliance reuse.

Adaptavate has been named as the 2015 winner of the Green Alley Award, a European circular economy prize.