Black Friday spending could exceed the £1 billion mark set in 2015, with half of consumers worried about the environmental impact of buying things they don’t need.

Speaking to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tristram Stuart have called for supermarkets to provide greater transparency on their food waste.

The European Commission has promised action to make products more durable, repairable, and recyclable as a new study shows just how smart design can transform products.

Sainsbury’s has announced a further £1 million of funding for towns and cities across the UK as part of its Waste less, Save more initiative to fight food waste.

The government has once again ruled out the possibility of imposing a 5p charge on disposable coffee cups handed out at high street retailers after calls by the Liberal Democrats.

Terrifying news: 15 million carved pumpkins go uneaten in the UK during Halloween each year. Hubbub and Unilever have relaunched their #PumpkinRescue campaign to get people eating their glowing decorations.

Celebrity chef and waste campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has accused brands of ‘greenwashing’ responses to the burning issue of coffee cup waste, criticising in particular a campaign to increase high street recycling of takeaway cups.

Funding of £1.5 million is to be made available for businesses and research institutions working in the bioeconomy in Scotland to support innovative work that will help deliver circular economy growth.

Waste management firm SUEZ hopes to develop collections of complex and hard-to-recycle products across Europe after acquiring a 30 per cent stake in community collection programme TerraCycle.

Apps targeting food and DIY waste and a CO2–absorbing urban tree are among the innovations chosen as finalists for this year’s Green Alley Award.