A waste 'dating agency' is being set up by the London Waste and Recycling Board to deal with the 21 million tonnes of rubbish produced in London each year. The new brokerage service will link up waste producers with site owners, London boroughs and energy users and aims to provide new sites for reuse, recycling and energy from waste facilities.

The European Shopping Baskets Program (ESB) is a joint project of EUROPEN (The European Organization for Packaging and the Environment) and STFI-Packforsk AB Stockholm have published a comprehensive study of how much packaging a typical household shopping basket contains and what materials it is made of.

On the 16 December 2009 a free lunch made from delicious ingredients that would otherwise have been wasted was prepared for 5000 people in London. The aim was to highlight the ease of cutting the unimaginable levels of food waste in the UK and internationally in the days and weeks before 16 December 2009. Feeding the 5000 received tonnes of generously donated fresh produce from farms, packers and markets - from the tonnes of produce that are 'outgraded' for being cosmetically imperfect and that would have been wasted though still good to eat.