A round-up of business news from the waste and resources sector, including Keep Britain Tidy, Biogen, EPRO, and ReFood.

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has launched a new £300,000 fund for London boroughs wishing to create ‘social supermarkets’ to reduce food waste and support those in food poverty.

Forty people were evacuated from buildings near a biomass company in North Wales yesterday, after a fire broke out at the site.

The Welsh Government has introduced a new Environment (Wales) Bill, which includes a ban on incinerating recyclable materials.

Friends of the Earth has reiterated its call for government to review resource use, after evaluating the embodied land and water use in products.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including European Recycling Platform, J&B Recycling, Viridor and E.ON.

Dr Stuart McLanaghan of environmental consultancy Eden 21 argues for a new resource hierarchy, explaining why we need new metrics for resource use.

The next government should introduce new waste and recycling targets if it is to achieve a ‘green Britain’ by 2030, says renewable electricity firm Ecotricity.

The European Commission’s ‘indicative roadmap’ to its revised Circular Economy Package promises an ‘ambitious’ and ‘effective’ framework that will ‘drive real change’.

We might pay for our meals in gourmet restaurants with plastic, but how would you feel about eating something that’s fed on plastic? Leonie Butler reports