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Food waste brand Love Food Hate Waste is delighted to announce the first corporate donors for next year’s Food Waste Action Week (Monday 7th to Sunday 13th March), with supermarket Aldi, online supermarket Ocado Retail, food manufacturers Danone and Dunbia and food service provider Sodexo the first to put their names to the campaign.
- 250,000 tonnes a year of food worth £365 million saved from waste.
- Up to 670,000 tonnes of GHG emissions avoided.
- Surplus food equivalent to 145 million meals redistributed for people to eat.
- Major opportunities for greater impact remain – more action focused on hospitality and food service and primary production sectors, plus whole chain collaboration.
WRAP reports on Meat in a Net Zero world first year results, with progress across all action areas and new supporters in key sectors.
- Positive food management behaviours adopted during lockdown led to a 43% decline in food waste, but as the UK reopens household food waste is rising.
- With three in 10 people now classified as ‘high food wasters’, Love Food Hate Waste urges the public to remember that Wasting Food Feeds Climate Change.
- Businesses should focus on how they can help prevent food waste in the home and nudge people towards habits that stop waste from happening.
The Walmart Foundation has awarded nearly US$750,000 to WRAP, the UK’s leading sustainability charity delivering behaviour change interventions (BCIs), to develop new interventions to slash household food waste in the UK and Canada, in a partnership with the National Zero Waste Council in Canada.
- World-leading Courtauld Commitment 2030 sets 50% greenhouse gas target for 2030.
- Pioneering work under Courtauld Commitment keeps UK on track to cut carbon, slash food waste and ease water insecurity.
- Associate Membership expands Courtauld with opportunity for hundreds of UK businesses to fulfil their sustainability goals.
- Nearly half of those who saw Food Waste Action Week 2021 messaging reported either doing something differently to reduce food waste or planning to in future.
- Building on 2021’s success, Food Waste Action Week 2022 dates announced as 7th to 13th March - organisations urged to sign up.
- Eighteenth annual Recycle Week announced - Monday 20th – Sunday 26th September 2021
- First corporate donors named as companies and brands support huge week of environmental action
- WRAP seeks more corporate support for UK’s Recycle Week
- The UK’s first ever Food Waste Action Week takes place 1-7th March
- Partnering with Nadiya Hussain, Food Waste Action Week aims to tackle food waste in the home and help save the planet
- Preventing food going to waste is key to tackling climate change, says UK’s leading sustainability charity WRAP
- With UK households wasting the equivalent of eight meals a week on average, #FoodWasteActionChallenge will help reduce the amount of food wasted at home
- Wasting Food Feeds Climate Change, says WRAP, as momentum grows for UK’s first national week of action on wasting food.
- Food Waste Action Week names strategic partners, including Asda, Co-op, Hampshire LA, KFC, M&S, Premier Foods, Sodexo, Unilever and Waitrose & Partners.