Tag: WRAP

Environmental NGOs express “disappointment” and “concern” over Coca-Cola’s recent advert in joint letter to WRAP

Stuart Mitchell

Environmental organisation City to Sea has today sent a joint open letter to WRAP  which is co-signed by 6 other NGO’s including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth to express their collective “disappoint” and “concern” regarding Coca-Cola’s recent ‘Round in Circles’ advertising campaign which attempts to redefine the word single-use. The advert they claim, will “disrupt consumer understanding of what is meant by ‘single use’ packaging” and “sets a dangerous precedent to the industry and poses a real and immediate threat to progress being made on reducing single-use plastic.”  The…

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Londoners reduce food they throw away by 9% with the help of pioneering food project

Stuart Mitchell

TRiFOCAL, the project encouraging sustainable food behaviours in London, has announced its results as the three-year initiative comes to an end. The project helped citizens in six London boroughs reduce the amount of good food thrown away by 9% between spring 2017 and spring 2019. Delivered by WRAP, the London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB), and Groundwork London, TRiFOCAL addressed three message areas relating to food: healthy and sustainable eating, food waste recycling, and food waste prevention. The project has succeeded in its main objective to encourage sustainable food systems…

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New report shows where UK Plastics Pact members stand against targets, and where future challenges lie

Stuart Mitchell

WRAP has published its first annual report and baseline data for The UK Plastics Pact, giving a clear indication of members’ starting position towards the four targets, as well as where the biggest challenges lie. The 2018/19 report and data show: 1 billion problematic and unnecessary single use plastic items to be eliminated by the end of 2020 Pact members are over halfway towards all their packaging being recyclable, and the UK is over half-way towards recycling 70% of plastic packaging Members are a third of the way towards an…

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60% rise in frozen surplus food going to charities, thanks to funding from WRAP and Islamic Relief

Stuart Mitchell

FareShare has seen the amount of frozen food it redistributes to frontline charities grow by 60% in just one year thanks to a new project funded through WRAP’s Food Waste Reduction Fund and a grant from Islamic Relief. FareShare is the UK’s largest food distribution charity. It takes surplus food from the food industry and redistributes it to frontline charities feeding vulnerable people across the country, including breakfast clubs, refuges and homeless hostels. The programme consisted of a year-long trial in two of FareShare’s Regional Centres: Thames Valley in Didcot…

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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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