UNILEVER FOOD Solutions has launched an interactive video wall for operators to share their success and exchange best practice on reducing avoidable food waste. The wall shows how chefs and caterers have used the company’s Wise up on Waste toolkit – a simple waste audit – to cut waste and save money. Ashley Maskel, [...]
A fund of half a million pounds was today launched to support demonstration projects which encourage the collection of food waste from businesses and public sector buildings. The fund, totalling £500,000 over the next 3 years, is managed by WRAP on behalf of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. It will give the [...]
PRODUCT reuse could hold the key to issues of resource security says WRAP You’ll remember that the Footprint Awards we themed the evening around “upcycling”. There are echos of that concept in what WRAP have highlighted in this speech to the Green Alliance/CBI Conference. Growth of the world’s emerging economies, and a corresponding [...]
THE FOODSERVICE industry will have to reduce its food and packaging waste by 5% under proposals published by the Waste and Resources Action Programme. The percentage of food and packaging waste recycled, composted or sent to anaerobic digestion will also have to rise from 47% to 70%. These targets will be against a 2011 [...]
WETHERSPOON HAS begun a trial to collect food waste from over two dozen of its sites. Biffa, the company’s long-term waste contractor, will collect the waste from 28 sites across the country. Most of it will end up in the Poplars anaerobic digestion plant – the largest plant of its kind in the UK. Wetherspoon [...]
GROCERY RETAILERS and manufacturers in the UK are making significant progress in meeting the waste and recycling targets set out in phase 2 of the Courtauld Commitment. Companies have already managed to cut packaging weight and waste by 5.1% and reduce household food waste by 3%. This puts them well on track to meet the [...]
Household food waste has fallen by 13%, but the UK is still throwing away £12bn of edible food. Since 2006/07, household food waste has fallen from 8.3 million tonnes to 7.2 million tonnes a year. However, the vast amounts of edible food waste ending up in bins leaves a “big job” to be done. The [...]
Food businesses, restaurants and retailers have been urged to follow new guidance that will help them avoid food waste. Developed by the ‘Feeding the 5,000’ partnership, the guidance outlines the five principles of the so-called ‘Food Waste Pyramid’, which encourages businesses to cut waste, redistribute unwanted food and send anything else to anaerobic digestion or [...]
Forget the iPhone 4, ‘doggie boxes’ are the most popular innovation if you’re in foodservice. The specially-designed boxes are part of the ‘Too good to waste campaign’ (http://www.toogood-towaste.co.uk/), which is helping restaurants cut waste by allowing customers to take leftovers home with them. According to the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA), all 25,000 of the boxes [...]
Footprint Comment: Osborne’s call to mediocrity
By footprint on October 9, 2011
Published in: Comment, Latest, Legislation Updates, News, News Analysis, Zeitgeist.
George Osborne declared last week ‘Let’s at the very least resolve that we’re going to cut our carbon emissions no slower but also no faster than our fellow countries in Europe’. To put this into context under the Climate Change Act, the government is legally bound to cut Britain’s carbon emissions by 34 per cent [...]