Defra, or the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, part of the U.K.’s Environment Agency, has announced a policy update to the Digital Waste Tracking (DWT) reforms, including a new staged ...

Although the United Kingdom is exiting the European Union, its government has announced it intends to adopt a Circular Economy Package based on wider EU goals, including a target to recycle 65 percent ...

The UK government is considering options to simplify and clarify the use of “best before” and “use by” dates in a bid to cut household food waste. A spokesperson for the UK’s Department Environment, ...

Defra has confirmed that “interim measures” will be put in place to reduce disruption caused by the planned introduction of the new Record Reprocessed or Exported Packaging Waste Digital Service. The ...

Households in the UK waste two million tons of food each year simply by not consuming it in time. A third of this food waste is the result of the result of a confusing and counterintuitive labeling ...