Following the Scottish Government’s adoption of a food waste reduction target, Approved Foods has warned that consumer confusion with labelling systems is leading people to throw away perfectly good food.

A supermarket selling only surplus food from other stores at reductions of up to half price has opened in Copenhagen.

A switch to four-weekly collections will not go ahead in the North Wales county of Conwy after its council’s cabinet voted against the proposal, calling monthly collection ‘a bridge too far’.

ISWA is calling on governments and organisations to broaden their understanding of the global waste crisis following a recent focus on the issue of marine plastics.

Defra has been roundly criticised after its newly-published five-year plan virtually ignored the waste and resources sector.

Scottish Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead has pledged to cut food waste in Scotland by a third by 2025, as part of Scotland’s new circular economy strategy, ‘Making Things Last’.

A plant that developers say can process unsorted household waste, creating biogas and separated plastic and metals for recycling, is to be built by in Cheshire.

More than 250 jobs are set to be lost in a ‘major transformation’ of Lancashire County’s Council’s waste operations that will see two six-year-old sites run by Global Renewables mothballed.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a food waste communications trial, a Veolia employment project and the removal of street bins in Dorset to encourage recycling.

Lidl UK has announced it will be donating £500,000 from the carrier bag charge to a new Keep Britain Tidy initiative designed to inspire young people to reduce litter and waste.