For some, what happens to the contents of your household ‘food bin’ that many councils collect for recycling waste is perhaps even more mysterious than what happens to the plastic in our recycling ...

Every time I scrape leftover food into my compost bin, I think about the staggering 1.3 billion tons of food we waste globally each year. That’s enough to feed 3 billion people – nearly half the world ...

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