Coffee ground reprocessor bio-bean has set up a partnership with Caffè Nero and recycling company First Mile to transform used coffee grounds into fuel.

Younger generations are increasingly adopting a more ‘live to eat’ attitude towards food, with the cavalier approach making it harder to control levels of food waste, a Sainsbury’s report has found.

Lidl has signed up to be the second supermarket to use community social network Neighbourly to redistribute surplus food to charities and local causes.

Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council is auctioning off a repossessed waste treatment facility that has lain unused for the past two years.

MEPs have voted in favour of a 70 per cent recycling and reuse target for 2030, upping the goal proposed by the European Commission in its Circular Economy Package.

Four of the UK’s largest supermarkets have had their say on actions needed to cut food waste, including transparency, targets, redistribution and labelling.

Unilever is to use biomethane supplied by GENeco to power five of its sites in the UK and Ireland as it moves towards a carbon positive future.

EU action on food waste has been ‘fragmented’ and ‘intermittent’, despite a number of policies having the potential to make a big difference, a new report from the European Court of Auditors has found.

The European Parliament’s Environment Committee have been urged to impose a 50 per cent food waste reduction target in a vote on food waste regulations next week that will shape the EU’s policy on the matter for the next 15 years.

Gordon Ramsay is among a number of Michelin-starred chefs set to repurpose food waste at a new popup restaurant in Selfridges next month.