Amy Fetzer

Amy Fetzer is Director of Insights and Special Projects at Footprint. She is responsible for curating the Footprint Festival programme and leads evidence-based thought leadership focused on the future of sustainable food, hospitality and foodservice. With more than 20 years’ experience as a sustainability consultant, she helps organisations turn complex sustainability challenges into practical action through strategy, behaviour change, events and training. Her work focuses on issues including food waste, sustainable diets, resource use and net zero.

  • Defra invites industry to help devise new strategy

    DEFRA HAVE invited the UK food and farming industry to help develop a 25-year plan for the future of food and farming. The consultation kicked off this week when 80 representatives from across the UK food and farming industry met…

  • Restaurant introduces four-day working week

    TO IMPROVE working conditions and to attract and retain talent, restaurateurs Sat and Amanda Bains have decided to move their restaurant and rooms to a four-day working week. The decision hopes to address the problem of attracting and retaining talented,…

  • Restaurants and pubs urged to show calories

    THE LOCAL Government Association (LGA) is urging pubs, restaurants and cinemas to display calorie information as part of a voluntary initiative.   Representing more than 370 councils, the LGA hopes that displaying calorie information will help to tackle Britain’s growing…

  • Ikea first national retailer to promise living wage

    IKEA, THE Swedish retail giant, has become the first national UK retailer to promise to pay its staff the living wage. This means that staff throughout its 18 UK stores will receive a minimum basic rate of £7.85, or £9.15…

  • Bin sizes and food waste collections impact recycling rates

    A NEW report by WRAP has found that factors within council authority control, such as bin sizes and food waste collections, account for the biggest variations in recycling rates, explaining up to 65% of the variation in recycling rates between…

  • TUCO appoints SRA to deliver sustainability initiative

    THE UNIVERSITY Caterers Organisation (TUCO) has confirmed that it has appointed the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) to launch a branded sustainability programme. As part of the agreement TUCO members will receive a discount on joining the SRA, and an ongoing…

  • Aldi tells NFU of its major commitments to UK growers

    ALDI HAS made a number of new commitments to UK growers which could change the face of retailer and supplier relations in this country, the NFU has said. Aldi has become the first retailer to sign up to the NFU’s Fruit…

  • More homes recycle than businesses claims recent survey

    DIRECT365, A facilities and waste management company obtained some interesting results about differing recycling habits between home and businesses in a recent survey. The research found that 94% of UK homes do some form of recycling, 49% of workplaces recycle certain items…

  • Green savings take flight at Glasgow Airport

    GLASGOW AIRPORT, working with its waste management contractor Biffa, has seen its recycling rate soar to over 90 percent since making a Resource Efficiency Pledge and is now encouraging all businesses on its campus to follow its lead and boost…

  • Sodexo and James Tanner team up

    Sodexo has signed up celebrity chef James Tanner to its independent schools business, Independents by Sodexo, as an ambassador for its ‘fresh food from scratch’ ethos. Independents by Sodexo is renowned for the seasonality, provenance and freshness of its menus.…