The government has responded to EFRA’s ‘Food Waste in England’ report and acknowledges that while more needs to be done to tackle food waste, a mandatory approach is not currently being considered for England.

A new code of practice for the refuse derived fuel (RDF) [http://resource.co/article/difference-between-rdf-and-srf-10156] market has been published today to set out a framework that shares good practice across the industry in an attempt to increase the confidence of customers and regulators in RDF processes and products.

Local waste management company Casepak has been awarded a contract to handle 64,000 tonnes of Leicestershire County Council’s dry mixed recyclables.

The UK government has targeted zero avoidable waste going to landfill by 2050 and confirmed plans for a Waste and Resources Strategy in its long-awaited Clean Growth Strategy yesterday, detailing its plans for a low-carbon future for the UK.

The award recognises innovation in tackling consumer waste and ocean plastic through the partnership of consumer giant Proctor & Gamble and recycling and waste companies TerraCycle and SUEZ.

Buses on the city’s new MetroBus route could be powered using bio-fuel made from food waste, bosses of FirstGroup revealed this week.

As research shows a third of young North Londoners don’t recycle, a new campaign goes back to the future in order to ‘Save Our Stuff’.

Resources Minister Therese Coffey says ‘ambitious’ recycling targets proposed by the EU could lead to ‘perverse actions’ being carried out to ensure enough waste is recycled, suggesting that Defra considered instructing residents to water their gardens to produce garden waste during this year’s relatively dry summer.

Amey has appointed Simon Houlahan as Business Director to oversee its environmental services accounts in the South of England.

Novelis, world leader in aluminium production and recycling, has released its 2017 Sustainability Report, showing an increase in recycled content but more waste going to landfill.