Food waste reduction by manufacturers and households needs to be the focus of attention since they are the biggest culprits, rather than supermarkets, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) director of food policy Andrew Opie has argued.
Legislation banning food businesses from throwing away fit-for-purpose surplus food would be as accepted as policy surrounding seatbelts, according to the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
The new government should make recycling compulsory under law as Britain’s increasingly full landfill sites reach crisis point, according to one waste management business.
Frozen food firm Iglo Group and the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) have launched a campaign to educate consumers about the benefits of freezing food in a bid to reduce food waste across Europe.
Tougher food waste regulation for the food industry is needed to counterbalance the “very low” voluntary targets set out in the Courtauld Commitment, according to Labour MP Kerry McCarthy.
The Labour Party’s decision to drop plans to make a ban on food waste being sent to landfill part of its 2015 election manifesto has been slammed by companies that convert food waste into reusable energy, fertiliser and animal feed.
The food industry is struggling with food waste reduction, despite achieving some significant milestones, according to the charity Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP).
Food Manufacturers have been urged to join retailers and others in a bid to cut food waste, as part of a plan to create a national network of food banks.
The food industry must engage with frozen food firm Iglo Group’s latest programme to tackle obesity, food waste and unsustainable production, according the firm’s boss Elio Leoni Sceti.
A new campaign to help around 650,000 food manufacturing and retail employees to reduce their household food waste, has been launched today (October 1).
Ready meal industry mavericks Jonny Bingham and David Jones have claimed they can save one retailer up to £10M in food waste with a new chilled ready meal format.
Food manufacturers could increase their profits by over 10%, simply by more effectively using the waste they generate, claims a specialist food recycling organisation.
Ambitions to build on the UK’s 21% reduction in avoidable domestic food waste recorded since 2007, and recognition of packaging’s role in facilitating such change, are being undercut by lack of central government commitment, specific targets and funding,...
A food waste crackdown is extending to 10 cities after a successful west London initiative, delegates heard at a Fresher for Longer conference in London held on February 5.
Tesco has moved to crack down on food waste as it emerged it is lagging behind other grocery retailers in the crucial area of bagged salads, according to its own data.
A new partnership between Tesco and food re-distribution charity FareShare will help to tackle food waste by preventing 2,300t of surplus food being returned to UK food manufacturers every year, according to the retailer.
Millionaire celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has endorsed Which?’s new research which revealed 14M cash-strapped consumers were cutting waste due to financial reasons.
The founder of food re-distribution charity FareShare is establishing a trademark scheme for firms that make available all surplus stock for human consumption, with several major manufacturers reportedly expressing an interest in signing up for a pilot...
Almost 6Mt of food waste will still be sent to landfill by 2025 if the practice isn’t banned – a decision dubbed a “political no-brainer” by a policy expert.
A leading academic says he’s prepared to “put his head on the block" and insist that every dollar spent on research for reducing food waste will have a greater impact on improving food security than the equivalent amount spent on increasing production.
Governments in developed nations should tell retailers not to reject foods on the basis of appearance, in a bid to prevent half of all food ending up as waste, according to a new report from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) .
Food manufacturers are helping consumers to make significant cuts in the £12bn worth of food they waste each year, according to new research from the government-funded Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP).
Would you buy a bottle of whisky called anaerobic digestion? Probably not. But it was out there, for a time, compliments of the Bruichladdich distillery in the Hebredean Isle of Islay, Scotland. You can still pick up a bottle online for just under £100.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' (DEFRA's) press release on its Guidance on Date Marks spawned a welter of media stories that confused an already confused picture. But we can blame the press release. It did not clarify...
Food waste is a ticking bomb that could go off in the face of the food industry, with landfill filling up and bureaucratic delays exhausting all remaining time to tackle the issue.
Significant public and private sector initiatives look set to spur food and drink processors to meet urgent environmental targets, starting with a call from the UK’s largest food waste recycler.
