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  • 2018 Footprint Awards Shortlist of Sustainability Elite Announced

    2018 Footprint Awards Shortlist of Sustainability Elite Announced

    The shortlist for Footprint Awards is announced, revealing the foodservice and hospitality sector’s leading responsible business initiatives. Footprint Awards remains the only initiative to honour the achievements of companies in the area of sustainability and responsible business practice in the… Read More

  • New labelling guide to help cut food waste

    New labelling guide to help cut food waste

    New labelling guidelines have been published to help reduce the amount of food people chuck in the bin. In the UK, two million tonnes of food is thrown away every year because it’s not been used in time; a third… Read More

  • Restaurants not pulling their weight on food waste

    Restaurants not pulling their weight on food waste

    A new report published this week by Champions 12.3 showed “hopeful signs of progress” towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goal target to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels by 2030. Some 60% of the… Read More

  • Call for standardised date labels by 2020

    Call for standardised date labels by 2020

    The likes of Nestlé, Unilever and Tesco have called for date labels on packaging to be standardised worldwide by the end of the decade in a bid to dramatically cut food waste. The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) – a network… Read More

  • What’s in Gove’s plastic bag of tricks?

    What’s in Gove’s plastic bag of tricks?

    The new environment secretary’s praise for the carrier bag tax suggests that a previously regulation-shy government could get tough on waste. By David Burrows. What a difference 5p makes. New DEFRA figures show that seven of the UK’s largest food… Read More

  • Food waste breakthrough is just the beginning

    Food waste breakthrough is just the beginning

    2016 was the year redistribution went mainstream. But it’s only a sticking-plaster solution to the problem of poverty. By Nick Hughes. The year 2016 felt like a breakthrough moment for food waste redistribution. Greater public awareness of food waste along… Read More

  • Redistribution is no solution to food waste and poverty

    Redistribution is no solution to food waste and poverty

    The year 2016 felt like a breakthrough period for food waste redistribution. Greater public awareness of food waste along with businesses’ own waste reduction commitments and improvements in the operational capabilities of redistribution charities combined to create the conditions needed… Read More

  • Food sector aims to double food redistribution

    Food sector aims to double food redistribution

    Some of the country’s largest food and drink firms have committed to doubling the amount of surplus food they redistribute by 2020. A new campaign to improve redistribution in the hospitality and foodservice sector will also be launched this year,… Read More

  • London to pioneer new waste campaign

    London to pioneer new waste campaign

    A new campaign plans to save Londoners a combined £330m each year by reducing the amount of food they throw away. The EU funded initiative is being led by Resource London and plans to combine advice around avoiding food waste… Read More

  • Vacherin smashes zero waste target

    Vacherin smashes zero waste target

    Vacherin has hit its target of becoming a zero waste-to-landfill organisation more than a year earlier than scheduled. In April 2016, the specialist London caterer set itself the target of sending zero waste to landfill by 2018; however a recent… Read More