Tag: WRAP

UK Packaging Pact names Industry Expert Group Chairs

Stuart Mitchell

The UK Packaging Pact, a ten-year programme launched in April to transform the UK’s packaging system to help businesses overcome complex packaging challenges, reduce costs, shape and implement policy, and accelerate circular packaging at scale across multiple sectors today named the industry figures who will Chair its five core Industry Expert Groups (IEG) to help deliver the Pact’s ambitious goals. The new Chairs are  Jamie Riley, Head of Sustainability at Robinson Packaging who chairs the Optimising Packaging Industry Expert Group, James Bull, Head of Packaging and Food Waste Strategies at Tesco…

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His Majesty The King visits WRAP’s ‘Methane Takeaway’ to see how food waste is on the menu when it comes to tackling climate change

Stuart Mitchell

His Majesty the King visited WRAP’s ‘Methane Takeaway’ pop-up at a prestigious London Climate Action Week reception. Hosted at St James’s Palace, the event was an invitation-only, high-level VIP reception convening senior leaders from science, policy, philanthropy, business, and climate diplomacy to accelerate action on super pollutants, including methane, ahead of COP31. Created by global environmental action NGO, WRAP, the Methane Takeaway installation shows how reducing food waste is one of the fastest, most cost-effective ways to cut methane and help reduce climate change. During his visit, King Charles III…

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Help for the hospitality sector to unlock food waste opportunities

Stuart Mitchell

A new free online platform has launched at London Climate Action Week this week, designed to help hospitality, restaurant, and catering professionals unlock one of the sector’s biggest opportunities: reducing food waste. Reducing food waste can lower costs, improve efficiency, strengthen resilience, and reduce emissions, yet practical guidance is often difficult to find and apply. The Food Waste Decelerator has been created to help close that gap.    The free platform combines AI powered search across hundreds of expert resources, practical case studies, a directory of technology solutions and a global community of hospitality professionals –…

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Consultation launches on most comprehensive Net Zero Transition Plan for the resources and waste sector

Stuart Mitchell

As an essential service provider to the UK economy, the resources and waste sector represents 6% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions. It collects, sorts, treats, recovers value from and safely disposes the materials from households, businesses and public services – keeping the streets clean, protecting public health, and enabling thriving local economies and environments.  But the sector is at the mercy of what enters the waste stream and emissions are a resultant mix, warns a consortium of key industry bodies that is setting out a practical sector plan towards…

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Food waste – the opportunity is hiding in plain sight

Stuart Mitchell

Global environmental action NGO WRAP will use London Climate Action Week (LCAW) as the first in a series of international events to change the narrative around global food waste, showing that we have Everything to gain – nothing to waste by acting on one of the world’s biggest overlooked economic, environmental and social opportunities.  With events at Climate Week New York City and COP31 to follow, WRAP will launch a new global campaign to focus on scaling action to reduce food waste across the world’s food systems and supply chains. WRAP…

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