| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.04.2026 | Eka closes $107M Fund II to becomes the UK’s largest early-stage impact VC | Eka has announced the final close of its second fund at $107 million (£80 million), marking a significant milestone in the firm’s journey.
With this raise, the firm becomes the UK’s largest early-stage impact venture capital firm investing ... |
| 30.03.2026 | UK’s new recycling reforms aim to cut waste but may raise consumer costs | Listen
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| 10.07.2025 | Byte into Food Waste Tech From AI to apps, Somdip Dey is cooking up smarter ways to fight food waste across the UK | Food waste is often dismissed as an unfortunate byproduct of modern life - but for Somdip Dey, it's a problem demanding urgent attention. Drawing on his academic expertise and personal experience, Dey has developed Nosh Technologies, an AI-... |
| 08.05.2025 | The Future of Food: Navigating Change in a Global Landscape | The food industry is at a crossroads. On one side, we have the traditional giants of meat and dairy. On the other, innovative foodtech companies are reshaping how we think about food. The landscape is changing rapidly, driven by consumer de... |
| 06.05.2025 | Connecting Food muda liderança e projeta expansão internacional | A Connecting Food anunciou a nomeação de Priscila Socoloski como nova CEO. A mudança marca o início de uma nova fase para a empresa, que prepara sua expansão internacional e o reforço da atuação em três eixos estratégicos: redistribuição de... |
| 01.05.2025 | This startup turns trash into designer objects — which have been featured in Vogue | Entrepreneur Charlie Rudkin-Wilson recycles household plastic into homewares that have featured in Vogue.
Rudkin-Wilson wants to “change the perception of plastic waste and to make it seem like a valuable material,” she told CNBC.
Around 36... |
| 05.02.2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan Hot Honey, Dairy-Free February & Earthshot Prize | 5 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Eleven Madison Park’s new vegan hot honey and Kite Hill’s post-Veganuary dairy-free campaign. New products and la... |
| 14.11.2024 | The Fork in the Road: UK Food Industry Faces Dietary Shift for Climate Goals | The UK food industry stands at a critical juncture. A recent report highlights the urgent need for a 20% reduction in meat and dairy consumption to meet the nation’s climate goals. This isn’t just a suggestion; it’s a lifeline for the plane... |
| 14.11.2024 | The Shift Towards Sustainable Eating: A Call for Change in the UK Food Industry | The UK food industry stands at a crossroads. A recent report by industry leaders highlights a pressing need for change. To meet climate goals, a 20% reduction in meat and dairy consumption is essential by 2050. This isn't just a suggestion;... |
| 14.11.2024 | Report Urges 20% Cut in Meat and Dairy to Decarbonize the UK Food System by 2050 | A new report detailing a system for decarbonizing the UK food system suggests that reducing meat and dairy consumption is necessary to lower its 129.5 million-tonne carbon footprint and achieve sector net-zero targets by 2030 and 2050.
The ... |
| 11.11.2024 | UK Food Industry Leaders Draw Up Plan Suggesting a 20% Reduction in Meat & Dairy Consumption Needed to Achieve Net Zero | 6 Mins Read Reaching the UK food system’s climate goals isn’t possible without a reduction in red meat and dairy consumption, industry leaders say in a new report.
Food sector leaders in the UK have come together to produce a net-zero trans... |
| 03.10.2024 | Tesco, Sainsbury’s ‘Misled’ Consumers By Burning Most of the Soft Plastic They Pledged to Recycle | 7 Mins Read The take-back schemes run by UK supermarkets to recycle soft plastics have misled consumers, with 70% of this waste being burned instead, an investigation has found.
Tesco and Sainsbury’s – the UK’s two largest retailers – are b... |
| 20.08.2024 | New Electrolux Group study shows short wash and low temperature key to reducing environmental footprint of clothes | New Electrolux Group study shows short wash and low temperature key to reducing environmental footprint of clothes
Tue, Aug 20, 2024 08:00 CET Report this content
Seven-year research program proves clothes including jeans and T-shirts can l... |
| 27.07.2024 | The Food Industry's Sustainability Shift: A New Era of Accountability | The food industry is at a crossroads. As climate change looms large, businesses are under pressure to adapt. The recent acquisition of Foodsteps by Registrar Corp signals a pivotal moment in this transformation. This merger is not just a bu... |
| 23.07.2024 | Registrar Corp acquires Foodsteps as food industry faces mounting pressures to deliver supply chain sustainability | LONDON, and HAMPTON, Va. , July 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Registrar Corp ("Registrar"), a Paine Schwartz Partners portfolio company and the U.S.' leading provider of regulatory and compliance software, has acquired Foodsteps, a pio... |
| 07.06.2024 | USDA, FDA & EPA Renew Agreement for Programme to Reduce Food Loss & Waste | 4 Mins Read US government departments have signed an agreement to renew their collaborative efforts to reduce food waste and loss in the country.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Environmental ... |
| 08.04.2024 | Meal Reveal: Hellmann’s Launches AI Recipe Tool to Cut Household Food Waste | 5 Mins Read Unilever-owned mayo brand Hellmann’s has rolled out an AI-enabled tool that uses an ingredient scan to produce recipes that can help households use up food and reduce waste.
Launch your camera app, scan your fridge, and your pho... |
| 04.04.2024 | ‘A Global Tragedy’: We Waste A Billion Meals Every Day, Just as 780 Million Go Hungry Globally | 6 Mins Read Despite more than 780 million people facing hunger around the world, over a billion household meals are thrown out every day, resulting in over $1T in economic losses, reveals a new UN report.
Households are discarding preposter... |
| 14.03.2024 | Top UK Sustainability Trends in 2024: 4 Key Challenges & Insights | As environmental challenges intensify, businesses find themselves at a crossroads between financial pressures and the urgent need for sustainability.
According to a global study of 5,000 CEOs by IBM, business leaders struggle to fund their ... |
| 08.09.2023 | Single-Use Paper Cups for Coffee Can Be as Toxic as Plastic Cups, Finds New Study | 4 Mins Read Single-use paper cups for coffee may not be as eco-friendly as you think, as they still contain a thin coating of plastic that can leach chemicals into water and harm aquatic animals, according to a new study. Researchers found ... |
| 15.06.2023 | Bakker Barendrecht Deploys OneThird’s AI-Powered Produce Scanners to Put an End to Wasted Strawberries | OneThird is a food tech company created to address the annual loss of one-third of all food produced due to spoilage -- 40% of which is fresh produce "Making informed and data-driven decisions in the supply chain plays a key role in ad... |
| 26.04.2023 | US generated 91m tons of surplus food in 2021, representing 6% of all GHG emissions. Just 2% was donated. | The United States generated 91 million tons of “surplus food” in 2021, representing 38% of the country’s entire food supply, according to updated figures from food waste non-profit ReFED.
Despite 80% of this surplus food being edible, less ... |
| 28.01.2023 | Trusted reusable nappy retailer commits to nationwide incentive scheme and eco education for first-time parents | Giving every baby born in the UK the chance to try reusable nappies at an affordable cost “We have been running our free advice service since 1999, but in current times we want to reach out to as many parents as possible to support them to ... |
| 01.12.2022 | The UK wastes £19bn of food each year. As food shortages loom, we need circular solutions, says insect startup | A mix of high inflation, drought conditions, and high energy costs are making the chance of food shortages and food insecurity in the UK ever more likely this winter.
And as millions of Brits are skipping meals days at a time, according to ... |
| 22.11.2022 | Sustainability In Midsize Companies: Finding The Way To Competitive Supply Chains | Consumer interest in sustainable goods and services is much more than being fashionable or following a trend. It's now part of everyday life, from the shoes we wear to the cars we drive and the homes in which we live. |
| 29.07.2022 | Great Wrap raises $24 million as it looks to knock petroleum plastics off the shelves with its biodegradable stretch wrap | Great Wrap founders Julia and Jordy Kay. Source: Supplied.
Victorian-based and founded materials science company Great Wrap has raised $24 million in capital to ‘completely knock petroleum plastic off the supermarket shelf’ with its biodegr... |
| 14.01.2022 | Sage : Green tips from our top 10 sustainable businesses to follow in 2022 | If you run a business, environmental issues seem so big that it could be easy to think that whatever you do when it comes to sustainability, it's going to be inconsequential.
But every little bit adds up.
Millions of businesses have a big p... |
| 11.01.2022 | Wm Morrison Supermarkets : Morrisons scrapping 'use by' dates from milk to help customers reduce waste | - 490 million pints of milk wasted in the UK every year -
- Morrisons to be the first UK supermarket to switch to 'Best Before' dates only -
From 31 January Morrisons will scrap 'Use By' dates on 90 per cent of its own brand milk - and enco... |
| 11.10.2021 | Sustainable business grants and loans: Financial support for your company to access | If you are considering applying for a business grant or loan to make your business more sustainable and environmentally responsible, there are a variety of initiatives that can help you.
Support on offer depends on where you are based, the ... |
| 21.09.2021 | The paradox of fashion NFTs
| Brands should carefully weigh up NFT opportunities before jumping on the bandwagon. |
| 10.09.2021 | Checkit : Food waste in the foodservice industry - five foolproof fixes for leaders | Food waste in food service industry is a topic no business can ignore, and various well-publicised initiatives to reduce waste, such as WRAP and Pret Charity Run, are driving the trend for more sustainable practices across the globe. Howeve... |
| 25.06.2021 | War On Waste Continues As U.K. Hits New Record For Surplus Food Distribution | The Felix Project is a London based charity redistributing food to fight hunger and waste.Credit: Ade Kehinde |
| 27.05.2021 | HOTEL CHOCOLAT GROUP PLC
Hotel Chocolat : Find out more about our ethical partnerships | Honesty, fairness, and sustainability: learn more about our steps towards engaging in ethical chocolate production.
We strive to do the best we can by the people we work with and the planet. Living ethically is about more than just words, w... |
| 03.02.2021 | The role of IoT and data in keeping us safe and boosting the economy | With the UK going into its first financial recession since 2009 as a consequence of COVID-19, many businesses are struggling to stay alive in the current business climate. The economy has shrunk by 20.4 percent compared with the first three... |
| 15.01.2021 | DS Smith : How we are giving recyclable plastics a new lease of life | With the help of our innovative closed-loop solutions, we are finding ways to reduce the manufacturing industry's reliance on virgin plastics and help businesses meet their sustainability goals.
In total over 65 million tonnes of plastic is... |
| 16.12.2020 | Four Steps To Adopting A Circular Economy In Commercial Real Estate | Tushar is Founder & Managing Director at Studiokon Ventures Pvt Ltd, an office interior design company focused on turnkey solutions. |
| 19.11.2020 | UKRI awards £8m for new sustainable plastics research projects | UKRI awards £8m for new sustainable plastics research projects
19-11-2020
UKRI has announced 10 university-led research projects - including one from Cambridge - that will receive £8 million in funding from the Industrial Strategy Challenge... |
| 03.11.2020 | Making plastic packaging more sustainable: apply for funding | Making plastic packaging more sustainable: apply for funding
03-11-2020
Businesses can apply for a share of up to £2 million to support projects that investigate how to reduce, reuse, and recycle plastic packaging.
The UK uses around 5 mill... |
| 29.10.2020 | BONDUELLE
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1.1 Interview with Guillaume Debrosse, Chief Executive Officer
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| 28.10.2020 | Sustainable Packaging – Why Rejecting All Plastics Is Not The Answer [Video] | PakTech is a Business Reporter client. |
| 16.10.2020 | Q&A: Seeking Solutions to a $1.2 Trillion Problem: Food Loss and Waste | Q. What do people need to understand about solutions to food loss and waste?
A. People may know that between 30 percent and 40 percent of food produced goes uneaten. But a one-sized fits all approach to reduce losses and waste will not work... |
| 30.09.2020 | Love food, hate waste | Love food, hate waste
30-09-2020
People across the UK wasted a third less food than normal during lockdown – and Greater Cambridge residents are being urged to keep up these efforts as part of a new campaign. Local councils and the food par... |
| 20.09.2020 | Коробки из грибницы, съедобные «бутылки» для воды и колготки из бамбука: чем заменяют пластик и сколько это стоит Статьи редакции... | Чтобы решить проблему загрязнения пластиком, учёные и предприниматели заново придумывают ему альтернативы или «возвращают» материалы из прошлого.
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| 10.09.2020 | Will This Strategy From Tommy Hilfiger End Fast Fashion And Bring Fashion Circularity To Life? | |
| 24.07.2019 | The power of communications to change behaviour | The power of communications to change behaviour
24-07-2019
We live in busy times and are bombarded with messages, but I have had a few reminders lately of the power of communications – especially images – to change behaviour, sometimes even... |
| 29.05.2019 | Letter from London: Britain’s ‘Food Waste Tsar’ Wants Radical, Drastic Change | The British press has a knack for dubbing powerful individuals with outlandish titles. Regulators become “watchdogs” or “ombudsmen.” Owners of newspapers become “moguls.” If your day job is helping to tackle Britain’s food waste crisis, it ... |
| 20.03.2019 | 69 Percent of Brits Don’t Know Food Waste Contributes to Climate Change, Survey Finds | Ugh, it’s the end of dinner and now you have to work out what goes in what bin. OK. You ready yourself, surveying the chicken bones and rice, eyeing up the empty plastic packets strewn across your kitchen. Soft plastic, normal bin! Hard pla... |
| 21.05.2018 | Blockchain's Killer App? Making Trade Wars Obsolete | Pindar Wong is the chairman of VeriFi (Hong Kong) Ltd and a member of CoinDesk's advisory board. An internet pioneer, he cofounded the first licensed Internet Service Provider in Hong Kong in 1993.
The following article originally appeared... |
| 06.02.2018 | Circular Economy event explores the challenges and opportunities | Circular Economy event explores the challenges and opportunities
06-02-2018
Economic growth, while desirable, tends to be linked to consumption, yet consumption cannot continue indefinitely at the expense of the earth’s resources. Join Camb... |
| 24.08.2017 | Cambridge Consultants develops a smarter way to recycle | Cambridge Consultants develops a smarter way to recycle
24-08-2017
Product design and development firm Cambridge Consultants has developed a smarter recycling concept which tackles the challenge of improving the efficacy of recycling and in... |
| 17.06.2016 | OLIO arrives in Cambridge to join the fight against food waste | OLIO arrives in Cambridge to join the fight against food waste
17-06-2016
Following successful roll-outs across a number of UK cities in recent months, food sharing app OLIO has now launched in Cambridge. Smartphone users throughout the cit... |
| 11.05.2015 | Winnow Scores Seed Funding For Its Food Waste Smart Meter | Winnow is on a mission to help the hospitality industry cut down on food waste by making the kitchen ‘smarter.’ It does this via the Winnow smart meter, a set of smart scales and accompanying tablet app that lets kitchen staff easily log wh... |
| 17.02.2015 | An Airbnb for washing machines? How to achieve a circular economy | Every year massive amounts of valuable resources are deemed “waste” and consigned to landfill. Take the UK – around 540 million tonnes of products and materials enter the country annually, but only 117 million tonnes are recycled.
However i... |
| 18.04.2013 | Love Food Hate Waste cookery classes aim to save residents of Greater Manchester £680 a year | Here in Greater Manchester we currently generate approximately 170,000 tonnes of food waste per year. Food waste costs the average household £480 a year, rising to £680 for a family with children. Recycle for Greater Manchester can help you... |
| 28.09.2011 | Value from waste - Enval announces successful completion of trials for WRAP | Value from waste - Enval announces successful completion of trials for WRAP
28-09-2011
Enval, a leading provider of recycling and environmental technology solutions, announces that, following a series of trials carried out on Enval’s contin... |
| 30.03.2005 | 284 million programme launched to help cut business waste and improve resource efficiency | 284 million programme launched to help cut business waste and improve resource efficiency
30-03-2005
A new 284 million initiative to help businesses in the East of England manage resources more efficiently and cut waste was officially launc... |
