Grants support largest annual increase in surplus food redistribution

WRAP, the UK’s leading sustainability charity, has reported a huge rise in surplus food redistribution during lockdown with the equivalent of more than 220 million meals worth of food prevented from going to waste by food businesses through partnerships with charitable and commercial redistributors, helped by funding from UK governments. WRAP’s report ‘Surplus food redistribution in the UK 2015 – 2020’ shows the following: More than 92,000 tonnes of surplus food, worth £280 million – the equivalent of 220 million meals – redistributed in 2020. Total food redistributed between 2015…

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