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.

Waste management company Shanks Group plc is set to pay £5 million in extra costs after a four-month delay to its £750-million South Kirkby waste plant.

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.

Karen Cannard, co-founder of The Rubbish Diet [http://www.therubbishdiet.org.uk], shares her experience of working behind the scenes on Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s new BBC programme.

Human waste could provide enough energy to power Indonesia, Brazil and Ethopia combined, according to a UN University report released this week.

The UK’s food system will face increasing challenges over the next decade if we don’t embrace a ‘business unusual’ approach to the way we manufacture, sell and consume food, a new Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) report suggests.

More ‘wonky’ fruit and vegetables will be sold in Asda stores after the retailer announced this week that its ‘Beautiful on the Inside’ range is to be extended.

Morrisons has become the latest supermarket to implement a scheme redistributing unsold food from stores to local community organisations.

Celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is investigating food waste in the UK for Hugh’s War on Waste, a BBC documentary series that began last night.

Manufacturing and retail waste has reduced by 3.2 per cent since 2012, though packaging weight has increased by 0.7 per cent, according to interim results for Courtauld 3.