The amount of household waste sent to landfill in Northern Ireland has dropped below 100,000 tonnes despite an increase in the total waste collected and a slight drop in recycling.

Cannock Chase District Council has removed food waste collection from its recycling system, instead asking residents to include it with residual waste.

Businesses are being sought to apply for £35,000 awards to encourage innovation around ‘future retail’ practices across a number of themes including food waste reduction.

A UK-produced beer made from discarded crusts and unsold loaves of bread has been launched by Tristram Stuart, founder of the Feedback food waste charity.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, Greggs carrier bags helping Keep Britain Tidy, Poundland recycling and an online can recycling game.

McDonald’s UK has teamed up with paper manufacturer James Cropper in a new trial aimed at recycling the chain’s previously non-recyclable paper cups.

A new coalition has been launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos to ‘inspire ambition and mobilise action’ to reduce food waste and loss globally.

Anglesey will decide on Monday whether to introduce three-weekly bin collections as a way of meeting ambitious Welsh recycling targets.

Better waste and resource management could keep global warming below two degrees Celsius, but its role has been underplayed in COP21 discussions, WRAP CEO Liz Goodwin said today.

Entanglement by waste fishing gear, plastic bags and balloons are the greatest lethal threat to marine wildlife, says Ocean Conservancy.