29 June 2020Defra says food waste initiative is ‘bearing fruit’
Defra has said its food waste prevention initiative is “bearing fruit”, a year after announcing the first instalment of its £15 million fund to tackle the issue. Last year, four companies —FareShare, Company Shop Group, The...
26 June 2020Coronavirus leads to fears UK could miss food waste targets
Organics recycling company Warrens Group has warned the UK could miss its sustainable development goal to halve food waste by 2030 due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to cut global ...
28 May 2020Jacobs in organics call for green waste quality
The need to get plastics waste out of the green waste stream from households is a “big messaging agenda”, Jeremy Jacobs, technical director of the Renewable Energy Association, has emphasised in an exclusive video interview with ...
27 May 2020Cheshire IVC facility operational
Biowise has confirmed that its new In-Vessel Composting (IVC) facility with capacity to process up to 75,000 tonnes of organic waste per year is now operational. The facility was built as part of Biowise’s contract with Cheshire...
22 May 2020News in brief (22/05/20)
With news on: Pandemic sees sales of single-use plastics soar; Envar to provide dedicated compostable packaging service; Cromwell Polythene donates film for PPE; Geminor begins supplying LDPE to Denmark.
21 May 2020Target, measure, act: tackling food waste sustainably
SUEZ recycling and recovery UK recently hosted a webinar on "Target, measure, act: three key steps to tackling food waste sustainably". Below is a summary of the event which heard from a panel of experts and this is contributed by SUEZ.
19 May 2020Disruption to food collections easing, survey finds
Disruption to food waste collections in England appears to be easing, with 90% of respondents to a weekly survey on council waste services reporting that the service is operating as normal. This marks an increase of 20% from the ...
18 May 2020Veolia to continue processing Dudley’s organics
Veolia has been awarded a four year contract valued at £ 2.3 million for the haulage and treatment of organic waste from Dudley metropolitan borough council. The contract will see Veolia, the incumbent contractor, continue to...
20 April 2020Garden waste suspensions knock composting sector
Suspensions of garden waste collections across the UK have caused huge falls in volumes arriving at sites, composting sector businesses have said. Many local authorities have suspended garden waste collections in order to free...
Viridor sale completed with Wakelin as chairman - https://t.co/ruZW2mpiQR
Geminor to import 50,000 tonnes of waste wood to UK - https://t.co/fZm3uDuV83
UK the ‘second largest producer’ of WEEE - https://t.co/ZIyP28A0Vt
