Food businesses rely heavily on flexible plastics but is enough being done to recycle them? By David Burrows. When it comes to plastics, the softer they get the harder they are to recycle. And that presents a major issue for the food sector, which relies heavily on this lightweight packaging. A quarter of all consumer…

Caterers and campaigners want a more sustainable model for public procurement but are politicians equally hungry for change? Nick Hughes reports. As the foodservice sector begins the long road to recovery from coronavirus now might seem the wrong time to be tinkering with rules over public procurement. But leaving covid-19 aside for a moment, there…

Caterers and high street chains are enticing people back out with top quality coffee. But a warming planet could make a decent cup of Joe harder to find. David Burrows reports. “Everyone is missing coffee culture,” Adrian Evans, Sodexo food transformation director, said to me during a chat last year. At the time the pandemic…

This month’s musing accepts that we can’t recycle ourselves out of crises and doffs its Tyrolean hat at mandatory reusable packaging laws. With only 1,200 words to play with, let’s light the touch paper in this month’s incinerator-hot column with the following from a paper in the Wires Water journal: “… the current discourse on…