An estimated £1 billion of food waste could be saved through changes to labelling and food packaging, according to a survey by WRAP.

CEO and Founder of Globechain, May Al-Karooni, tells us more about the reuse platform with big ambitions.

Younger generations are increasingly adopting a more ‘live to eat’ attitude towards food, with the cavalier approach making it harder to control levels of food waste, a Sainsbury’s report has found.

Lidl has signed up to be the second supermarket to use community social network Neighbourly to redistribute surplus food to charities and local causes.

The European Commission’s roadmap for an EU strategy on plastics in the circular economy does not get to the root of the plastics problem, according to a coalition of environmental groups.

The UK’s most heavily-concentrated area of offices is to be targeted for Hubbub’s Square Mile Challenge, providing specialist bins to boost the recycling of takeaway coffee cups.

MEPs have voted in favour of a 70 per cent recycling and reuse target for 2030, upping the goal proposed by the European Commission in its Circular Economy Package.

Four of the UK’s largest supermarkets have had their say on actions needed to cut food waste, including transparency, targets, redistribution and labelling.

EU action on food waste has been ‘fragmented’ and ‘intermittent’, despite a number of policies having the potential to make a big difference, a new report from the European Court of Auditors has found.

The European Parliament’s Environment Committee have been urged to impose a 50 per cent food waste reduction target in a vote on food waste regulations next week that will shape the EU’s policy on the matter for the next 15 years.