food waste

RPH catering

How blue plates have helped RPH & Chorley Hospital win top food award

As kids break up for the summer holidays, cash-strapped parents in Lancashire are being offered six simple ways to cut down on food costs as household budgets come under increasing pressure.

Top tips for parents in Lancashire struggling with summer food costs

Recycling bins were uncollected for Armstrong Street residents in Ashton for five weeks

Council reveals main reason for Preston's missed bin collections

Recycling bins and food waste caddies in an alleyway off Armstrong Street in Ashton

'Smelly' food waste and 'overflowing' recycling as bin collections missed

Food waste bin

Preston food waste recycling explained

Food waste collections

The huge amount of South Ribble food waste collected in first week

Preston bin collections are changing

Preston bin collection changes: council 'let down' days before major shake-up

The food waste collection pack coming to Chorley doorsteps in the coming weeks

New food waste collection starts today across Chorley

Preston City Council issue update on flytipping in heritage woodland

Residents will see changes to bin collections in the Preston City Council patch from 20th April

Major changes coming to Preston bin collections in biggest overhaul for 14 years

Residents across Lancashire are getting their first look at the new food waste caddies that will soon be delivered to homes

First look at the new food waste caddies arriving in Lancashire homes

The food waste collection pack coming to Chorley doorsteps in the coming weeks

Chorley Council announces when new food waste collections will start

Starter pack, two caddies plus two rolls of liners and instruction leaflet

When food waste collections start in South Ribble & when bins arrive

A refuse worker shows off the new food waste caddies that will soon be distributed to households across Preston

Preston bin collection: key dates revealed for major change on the way

Some dates for bin collections will change over the Christmas and New Year across Lancashire

Date announced for huge changes to waste collections in Wyre

When food waste collections begin in your area as some councils reveal delays
Three Lancashire councils have been granted significantly more time to start dedicated household food waste collections – while two others have been unable to confirm whether they will meet the deadline for doing so.
Paul Faulkner

Co-op has launched a new ‘Too Good To Waste’ scheme to reduce food waste (Photos: Pexels)

Major UK supermarket cuts bakery prices by 50% to fight food waste

Aldi rolls out in store reduction zones

Aldi trials new in-store Reduction Zones in supermarkets near you

Booth's garlic bread initiative

I tried the 'No Waste' garlic bread - nice but with teething problems

Booth's garlic bread initiative

Booths takes leaf out of M&S' book with 'no waste' garlic bread

Simpler Recycling

Office workers throw away enough food waste per week to charge a mobile phone 13...

HelloFresh sends out just the right quantity of fresh foods and other ingredients in a box, straight to your door

HelloFresh: I reviewed three recipes to see what the fuss was about

Morrisons giving away 185k wonky carrots this Christmas - how to grab

The Shelfy claims to be able to make food last up to 12 days longer

This gadget can make food last longer in your fridge - we've tested it

King Charles

Why King Charles eats avocados: a nutritional expert explains benefits

Aldi will be reducing food waste by removing pineapple crowns. (Photo credit: Aldi/Getty)

Aldi makes change to fruit product in a bid to save food waste

Aldi's Too Good To Go offer

The staggering amount of meals Aldi shoppers have saved from the bin
Have you tried one?
Catherine Musgrove

Too Good to Go founder Jamie Crummie meeting Environment Minster Robbie Moore at Booths MD Nigel Murray at Booths Ilkley launching the food waste app across 27 Booths stores.

Booths offering bags of cheaper food under Too Good To Go app

Frank Schlachter fell from the top of the skip while working at the site in Burscough.

Farming company fined £320,000 after death of worker

Sustainability experts, Business Waste, found that Brits fill around 7 million bins worth of food waste over the festive season.

Unique ways to reuse leftovers and save money this Christmas

Food waste in the UK is a huge issue. Photo: Adobe

Going Green: Food waste in the UK is a huge issue

A sculpture shows the enormity of food waste collected over the summer

Here are 15 foods you can eat past their expiration date, saving money and reducing food waste.

15 foods you can eat way past their expiration date

Aldi making huge change to milk bottles in stores

Another major UK supermarket is introducing new vacuum packaging for its beef mince products - despite complaints against Sainsbury’s who became the first chain to make the controversial switch earlier this year.

Another supermarket makes controversial switch to vac-pack mince

Tesco to scrap use by dates on range of own brand dairy products

Camilla, Queen Consort has been forced to cancel events after testing positive for coronavirus. (Credit: Getty Images)

Queen Consort Camilla pulls out of another engagement due to Covid

The ‘Taste Me, Don’t Waste Me’ boxes, which contain an assortment of surplus fresh fruits and vegetables, are now available across 200 Sainsbury’s stores nationwide beginning this week.

Sainsbury’s launches £2 fruit and vegetable boxes

Co-op to remove best before date from 150 fruit & veg products

Iceland has teamed up with Currys and Birds Eye to hand out free freezers to low income families

Iceland to giveaway free freezers to low income families

Aldi will be offering customers discount "magic bags" of food almost about to expire.

Aldi announces ‘magic bags’ filled with £10 worth of food for £3.30

Tesco extend Plant Chef range during Veganuary

British households look set to throw out nearly 200,000 tonnes of food this Chri...

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Tesco to remove some fruit and veg '˜best before' dates to cut down on food wast...