Greencore donates equivalent of 4 million meals via FareShare

Leading producer of convenience foods Greencore has redistributed enough food to provide the equivalent of four million meals via FareShare. Over a partnership that’s lasted almost a decade, Greencore has provided good-to-eat surplus food, such as chilled meals and prepared foods, that would otherwise have gone to waste to our network of nearly 9,500 charities and community groups based around the UK. We have worked with Greencore’s manufacturing sites to build local relationships to redistribute surplus food to local communities. Greencore hopes to expand this across their entire business to…

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Tesco suppliers join forces to tackle global food waste

Tesco announces ground-breaking partnerships with suppliers to tackle UN Sustainable Development Goal on food waste. Speaking at a meeting of Champions 12.3 in New York, Dave Lewis,  Tesco’s CEO, announced partnership agreements with 24 of its largest food suppliers who will adopt the Sustainable Development Goal to halve food waste by 2030.  The suppliers, who represent over £17bn worth of Tesco sales, will publish food waste data for their own operations within 12 months, and have committed to take the steps needed to reduce food waste in their supply chain…

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