Tag: Food Waste Reduction Roadmap

Food Waste Reduction Roadmap steps up a gear to 2030 target

Stuart Mitchell

What is the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap? The Food Waste Reduction Roadmap is the key delivery mechanism for the food waste target for the Courtauld Commitment 2030. In 2018, leading climate action NGO, WRAP, and IGD developed a roadmap for how the UK food industry will help to deliver the UK’s part in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3  to halve food waste per capita by 2030. The development of the Roadmap consulted with businesses, trade bodies, agriculture, production, manufacturing, retail and hospitality and food service. As of December 2022,…

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Food Waste Reduction Roadmap marks year of business achievement

Stuart Mitchell

WRAP and IGD have published the Annual Progress Report for the UK’s Food Waste Reduction Roadmap. A world-first initiative launched in September 2018, the Roadmap outlines the route the UK food industry should follow to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 and halve food loss and waste by 2030. More than 200 of the UK’s large food businesses, with around 60% of UK food industry turnover, have reported on their actions to prevent food from entering the waste stream. Those businesses with year-on-year data have achieved an impressive 17% average…

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UK named ‘exemplar’ as Food Waste Reduction Roadmap membership passes 210

Stuart Mitchell

Global food waste report names the UK an exemplar in the growing challenge to hit Sustainable Development Goal 12.3, as Food Waste Reduction Roadmap exceeds 210 businesses. More than 60 businesses publicly report food surplus and waste data today, including 54 Tesco suppliers and international growers. Sainsbury’s and Waitrose begin first Whole Chain Projects to tackle supply chain food waste under UK Food Waste Reduction Roadmap. Burger King UK, McDonald’s UK and Pret A Manger join Roadmap, and new hospitality pilot to inspire food waste champions across the country.  Latest comparable…

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Food Waste Reduction Roadmap expands focus to farms

Stuart Mitchell

New guidance expanding the reach of the UK’s Food Waste Reduction Roadmap is published today, providing growers with advice on how best to measure food surplus and waste on farm to identify the causes; and help inform where action is needed. Developed in collaboration with leading trade bodies and industry organisations, the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap Grower Guidance includes two practical ‘how-to’ guides and dedicated tools for in-field measurement. WRAP, the body which developed the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap with IGD, designed the new resources to help growers apply the…

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Sainsbury’s pledges its support to an ambitious new Food Waste Reduction Roadmap developed by IGD and Wrap.

Stuart Mitchell

Sainsbury’s has used its website to pledge its support an ambitious new Food Waste Reduction Roadmap developed by IGD and Wrap. They made the pledge on their website and it is repeated below: Tackling food waste has been a key area of focus for Sainsbury’s for a number of years and as a business we are taking innovative steps across our entire value chain. By working closely with our farmers and growers, we are able to ensure what they grow matches the quantities our customers will buy. Crucially, we also…

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