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Philip Simpson, commercial director at ReFood, highlights the escalating issue of food waste and discusses why government funding is more important than ever before.

The President of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM), Dr Adam Read, has called for global leaders to recognise the crucial role that recycling and resource management has to play in supporting decarbonisation, branding the lack of 'resources and waste' representation in the COP26 programme a 'critical oversight'.

Gousto is trialling edible packaging made from pea protein to reduce plastic packaging in its recipe boxes. It is using edible stock cube packaging created with University of Cambridge spinout, Xampla.

Hundreds of thousands of British tree saplings are set to be protected with first bio-based and biodegradable tree guards manufactured at scale by Tubex, a major UK manufacturer of the familiar polypropylene tree establishment protectors. The new tree guards are available for sale now.

Wigan Council is claiming to be the first local authority to go green with a windowsill device made from recycled materials that saves money and cuts carbon emissions for its social housing tenants.

JCB is investing £100 million on a project to produce efficient hydrogen engines ready for sale next year, banking on this power instead of electric as the all round solution. 

A Plastic Park in the North West of England is set to recycle 367,500 tonnes of plastic and help slash carbon emissions on the road to net zero, if planners give the go-ahead.

Drainage and wastewater specialist Lanes Group has been supporting firefighters and the Environment Agency as they dealt with the aftermath of a huge industrial blaze in Worcestershire close to an ecologically rich canal.

The Company Shop Group has revealed that the total number of surplus food and product items it has redistributed within the last year has reached over 80 million, collectively saving its network of members over £64million on their food bill.

An international team of scientists, led by the University of St Andrews, have studied historical carbon dioxide levels spanning 66 million years and conclude that urgent action is needed to avoid a return to prehistoric levels of climate change from 50 million years ago.