THE TOP stories of 2012, from Starbucks’ tax travails to rising energy bills and the “greenest Olympics ever”. January/February With the mince pies sitting heavily around the waistline and the influence of festive parties still coursing through the veins, health and diets are rarely far from the headlines in the new year. And so [...]
Hospitality and Foodservice Agreement

BUSINESSES, COMMUNITIES and local authorities need to better manage food waste, according to one of the UKs leading waste companies. As part of its new manifesto, Veolia Environmental Services called on the Government to encourage local authorities and businesses across the UK to collect [...]
A NEW VOLUNTARY agreement for the foodservice sector has been published. Businesses signing up to the Hospitality and Foodservice Agreement will be required to cut their waste and divert more of whats left to recycling, composting and anaerobic digestion (AD) than landfill. The agreement [...]


















Footprint comment: Nick Cliffe from Closed Loop Environmental Solutions highlights the opportunities for foodservice to recycle more packaging
By footprint on April 24, 2013
Published in: Comment and tagged Closed Loop, FMCG, Hospitality and Foodservice Agreement, London Olympics, Sydney Olympic Games, WRAP.
WHILE RECYCLING and closing the loop on water and milk bottles is now established in the UK, there is now a huge opportunity to bring this expertise into the foodservice sector. Closed Loop in Australia began by providing a foodservice solution for the Sydney Olympic Games. [...]