Resources
Getting employees engaged in a company’s quest to improve resource efficiency has proved to be a surefire winner. With many companies having run successful campaigns relating to energy and water, WRAP has produced the ‘Your Workplace Without Waste’ programme to help you tackle food and packaging waste in your business.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Meat, poultry and fish
- Fresh produce sector
- Dairy sector
- Bakery sector
- Ambient foods sector
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Packaging producers
Supported by WRAP, Brakes embarked on a project to analyse the annual waste arisings from its ambient, chilled and frozen depots in order to identify waste prevention opportunities.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Hospitality and food service
- Packaging producers
In this case study we report on the successful collaborative approach taken by Greencore and Sainsbury’s in driving waste out of their sandwich supply chain.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
Reducing syrup waste in soft drinks manufacture saves £117,000 a year.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Manufacturers
The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) and British Soft Drinks Association (BSDA) worked in collaboration with Britvic Soft Drinks and Carlsberg (UK) on a joint project to reduce the amount of ingredient and product waste being sent to sewer and to land injection in the brewing and soft drinks industries: ‘Project Shandy’.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Manufacturers
A programme of whole chain resource efficiency Pathfinder projects.
This work involves reviewing a range of products from the farm to the consumer, and how information in the chain is used to plan and drive production.
- Food and drink
- Courtauld Commitment
- Meat, poultry and fish
- Manufacturers
Good menu planning can be a great way of preventing food waste within your organisation and to help put profits on the bottom line.
- Food and drink
- Courtauld Commitment
- Hospitality and food service
How to develop food promotions that won’t contribute to increased food waste.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Meat, poultry and fish
- Fresh produce sector
- Dairy sector
- Bakery sector
- Ambient foods sector
- Manufacturers
WRAP worked with nine small and medium size (SME) businesses in the Swansea and the Gower Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to identify ways of saving money by improving their environmental performance. The work highlighted how, by working together, small businesses can deliver substantial savings.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- Courtauld Commitment
- Hospitality and food service
- Packaging producers
This report provides an assessment of how food waste levels have changed historically in the UK, and the potential impact of a range of ‘exogenous’ factors and interventions on food waste levels in the future.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- UN SDG 12.3
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
Food waste is a constant challenge for commercial kitchens, which creativity in the kitchen can really help to tackle. Watch our chef masterclasses to get practical tips and ideas on how to get the most from ingredients, waste less and save money.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Hospitality and food service
September 2014
The distribution centre at Didcot is Asda’s first purpose-built depot and was constructed using eco-friendly timber and reclaimed brick from a former brown-field site. Built in 2009, the 42,000m2 ambient goods depot serves 33 stores across the south of England. Asda has a target to reduce its carbon footprint and the company is also championing reductions in water consumption at the depot.
- Food and drink
- Water stewardship
- Courtauld Commitment
- Retailers and brands