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Food waste falls by 7% per person in three years and Tesco to stop using plastic wrapping on multipacks

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Scraps of food waste including various fruit and vegetable peelings

Today's blog looks at new data showing almost half a million tonne reduction in total UK food waste in just three years – enough to fill the Royal Albert Hall ten times - and the announcement Tesco will stop using plastic wraps on its multibuy canned food products.

Village halls funding, white-tailed eagle success in Oxfordshire and wild animals in circuses ban

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In this afternoon’s blog we take a look at positive coverage of the government’s grant scheme to help rejuvenate village halls, the progress of a white-tailed eagle released onto the Isle of Wight last summer and our ban of wild animals in circuses.

Introduction of Agriculture Bill, the launch of the Joint Unit on Waste Crime and calls for greater protection for our ocean

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sheep on a farm field with trees in the background

In today's blog we look at the introduction of our landmark Agriculture Bill in Parliament, a new taskforce dedicated to tackling serious waste crime and Environment Minister Rebecca Pow's speech at a Greenpeace event last night.