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Residents across Blackpool and the Fylde coast can download the Olio app and collect high-quality surplus fresh produce, chilled food, and bakery items entirely for free from their local Lidl store at the end of the day.

Residents in Blackpool and the Fylde coast can get FREE food from Lidl

Wyre residents offered free meal planning service to help save time, money and food waste

Free meal planning service to help save time, money and food waste

The Big Food Truck has launched in Fleetwood thanks to £12,000 of funding from Wyre Council's Crisis and Resilience Fund, helping ensure local residents can access affordable food while reducing waste.

New low cost food scheme launched for just £5 - what you need to know

'Flies and rats' - Blackpool residents fume at 'unhygienic' waste collection schedule

Major hygiene concerns over three-weekly bins as fly menace strikes

'Help us keep pilots safe' - Blackpool Airport issues update ahead of 2026 Air Show

'Help us keep pilots safe' - Blackpool Airport issues Air Show update

Thousands of residents to receive new info on weekly food waste collection service

Thousands to receive new info on weekly food waste collection service

Reduced grey bin collections hailed for boosting Blackpool's recycling rates as more new changes on the way

Reduced bin collections help boost recycling as new bin changes on way

New food waste bins are now starting to arrive at homes across Lancashire

Food waste recycling system explained and how to get more caddy liners

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

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

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

Changes are being made to commercial waste collections

Changes are being made to the way you dispose of your rubbish
Big changes to the way rubbish is disposed of have come into force this week including in Blackpool.
Shelagh Parkinson

Simpler Recycling

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

Keenan Recycling's Hydrogen-powered HVO truck

Keenan Recycling becomes UK’s first waste company with ISO-verified carbon emiss...

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

The trailer would be next to the Harper Beach Hotel (picture from Google)

Hot food takeaway plans revealed for Promenade site

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

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
Francis Schlachter, known as Frank, suffered severe head injuries when he fell from a skip.
Emma Downey

Preparations are being made for changes to bin collections

Changes to bin collections are in the pipeline

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...

Food waste - By Marjorie Nye

Overloaded wheelie bins in an alleyway in Fleetwood.

Should monthly pick-ups be binned off?

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