Action is to be taken to review guidance on food products’ best before dates as part of a drive to facilitate food redistribution from retailers to community programmes.

The OLIO app hopes to reduce levels of household waste while bringing together communities and neighbourhoods.

A new app is hoping to address the 600,000 tonnes of food waste created by UK restaurants every year while providing discounted meals to those in need.

The 2016 Olympics are upon us, but it remains unclear whether the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro will receive a gold medal for environmental achievement.

Italy has followed France’s lead in establishing a food waste law that the Italian government hopes will double the amount of unused food redistributed by retailers by the end of the year.

Campaigns around paper cup recycling and over-packaging of Amazon products have been met with mixed comments from the resources industry after Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall highlighted them on the BBC.

The overproduction of bread and its role in the generation of food waste has come under fire from a campaign launched by The Real Junk Food Project, an organisation that intercepts and uses surplus food.

The fight against the UK’s 10 million tonnes of annual food waste is to get ‘fresh messaging’ and ‘engaging campaigns’ following the development of a ‘Joint Ambition for a Zero Food Waste Britain’ by Hubbub and Unilever.

Campaign charity Hubbub has put together three tips for cutting down on the £500 million-worth of edible food that is thrown away by Brits heading off on holiday each year.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Amey’s new Environmental Services business, Gloucestershire waste, recycled plane products and sustainable visionaries.