Press releases

Press release 5 December 2018

WRAP Global, the international arm of WRAP working globally to expand the organisation’s resource efficiency programmes, has received key funding from The Roddenberry Prize to develop a bespoke programme to tackle the problem of food waste in Mexico City.

Press release 15 November 2018

Key actions businesses should take to help curb the situation of plastic packaging polluting the environment have been laid out by WRAP in The UK Plastics Pact Roadmap to 2025, published today.

Press release 6 November 2018

A new report from the UK’s leading sustainability experts WRAP shows for the first time the scale of milk wastes across the food chain, from processing to our homes, and highlights ways we can significantly reduce the 330,000* tonnes of total milk lost each year, worth more than £150 million.

Press release 5 November 2018

A new report from the UK’s leading sustainability experts WRAP shows for the first time the scale of milk wastes across the food chain, from processing to our homes, and highlights ways we can significantly reduce the 330,000* tonnes of total milk lost each year, worth more than £150 million.

Press release 5 November 2018

A London schools programme aimed at instilling messages about healthy sustainable eating, preventing food waste and recycling unavoidable food waste, has been named one of the world’s ten most inspiring sustainability programmes for young people.

Press release 23 October 2018

WRAP’s Courtauld Commitment 2025 beat competition from around the world to win the inaugural global ‘State-of-the-Art Partnership of the Year Award’ at the P4G Copenhagen Summit on Saturday. The award was in recognition of its successful work in bringing the food and drink industry together across the entire supply chain to successfully tackle food waste in the UK.

Press release 25 September 2018
  • Businesses take the lead to drive down UK’s annual £20 billion food waste bill, equivalent to more than £300 per UK citizen. 
  • All major retailers and 50% of larger food businesses to Target-Measure-Act and report on food waste by September 2019. 
  • 90 organisations begin epic journey - taking a ‘farm to fork’ approach to commit to a ground-breaking Food Waste Reduction Roadmap to halve food waste.