The Food Waste Reduction Roadmap: Progress Report 2022

• 351 committed organisations (which also includes trade bodies, redistribution organisations, companies involved in waste management and others), an increase of 10% since last year.
• 221 large businesses implementing ‘Target, Measure, Act’ in the past year, an increase of 7%.
• 89% of large businesses that have committed, now following through on that commitment by providing evidence of implementing ‘Target, Measure, Act’, showing expansion of capabilities amongst Roadmap supporters.

Sector-specific achievements

• For retailers that provided comparable tonnage data for 2018 and 2021, a reduction in food waste by over 19,000 tonnes (8%), equivalent to almost £62 million of food that did not end up as waste, whose production would have been associated with 60,000 tonnes of GHG emissions.
• For producers and manufacturers that provided comparable multi-year data, a reduction overall in their edible food waste by 13,900 tonnes, or 1.4%, compared to their individual baselines (which range from 2015 to 2020). However, total food waste (including both edible and inedible parts) has increased by 100,000 tonnes, or 9%, compared to the individual baselines, mostly driven by four large businesses.
• 4 new hospitality & food service businesses committed to the Roadmap (a 10% increase year on year) with two thirds providing evidence of implementing Target, Measure, Act, despite the unique challenges faced by this sector.
• 20 whole chain or collaborative plans now in progress or completed (almost double the number reported last year).
• 9 projects successfully delivered by WRAP together with supply chain businesses, supporting their growers in collaborating to measure on-farm food surplus and waste.

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