Food waste collections will be covered by the Government's £250m fund to help restore household weekly bin rounds, which is now open for local authority applications.

Schick has developed what it claims is the world's most sustainably produced disposable razor and associated packaging.

Kraft Foods has undertaken a huge recycling programme across all of its global operations, reducing manufacturing waste by 50% since 2005 with 36 of its facilities now sending zero waste to landfill.

A £20m recycling and refuse-derived fuel facility is one step closer to going live in Scotland for the treatment of residual waste.

London restaurants, bars and cafes have joined forces to launch the UK's first 'Straw Wars' campaign in a bid to cut down on the use of plastic drinking straws by customers.

Researchers in Sweden are investigating ways to maximise the recycling of nuclear fuel for fourth-generation power systems.

Car manufacturing giant Ford has unveiled plans to slash landfilled waste across its European plants by 70% by 2016 as part of its new five-year sustainability strategy.

The National Trust has appointed outsourcing firm Reconomy to manage waste across all of its properties for the next five years.

A project to encourage greater uptake of anaerobic digestion (AD) technologies among rural and small businesses has been launched.

Retailers are still finding their supply chains a challenge when it comes to reducing waste, despite making good progress within their own internal operations.

NHS Lanarkshire has awarded a waste contract to Viridor to boost the health board's recycling rates and help reduce disposal costs.

Northern Ireland will introduce a 5p charge for plastic carrier bags in April 2013, which will increase to 10p in April 2014.

Plasterboard manufacturer British Gypsum has reached zero waste across all of its UK production operations, resulting in the closure of an internal landfill site.

The rise of mixed plastics collections in the UK is starting to pose serious material quality problems for reprocessors, according to new research out today (January 30).

The Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead (RBWM) has appointed Covanta Energy as its preferred bidder to treat all residue and organic waste within the borough.

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A fund to help SMEs to develop more effective recycling solutions for their businesses has been launched by Zero Waste Scotland.

T-T Enviro, a relatively young division of T-T, is already proving a great success, with its wide range of separators, mixers and heavy duty chopper pumps for Agricultural and Industrial applications including Bio-gas applications.

Unilever Food Solutions has developed a waste toolkit for catering venues and restaurants to help food service operators control their costs better.

HP is calling for compliance costs under the WEEE Directive to be reduced, arguing that producers are now being overcharged due to the rising value of e-waste.