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A look at the strategy and practices that enable Co-op to adopt the principles of the UK Food Waste Reduction Roadmap – 'Target, Measure, Act'.

Food waste is an end-to-end challenge that requires end-to-end solutions.

Outlining progress made in the second year of the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap.

• More than 70 new food organisations have joined the Roadmap in the last twelve months, committing to ‘Target, Measure, Act’ on food waste in their operations, supply chain and customer base.
• Businesses implementing 'Target, Measure, Act' have increased from 121 to 171.
• 180,000t of food (worth £300m) across 45 companies reporting comparable data has been saved from becoming waste by Roadmap members.
• New Whole Chain toolkit equips businesses to tackle supply chain food waste farm to fork.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the entire global economy, cutting economic activity and increasing unemployment.

A cross-industry vision to optimise productivity and minimise waste from farm to fork.

This document is intended to answer the most frequently asked questions that relate to the key elements of the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap and support its implementation. These are based on feedback gathered during the consultation process with the UK food and drink industry during 2018.

Outlining progress made in the first year of the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap.

WRAP and UK food businesses have agreed a set of common guidelines for measuring and reporting on food surplus and waste, consistent with the global Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard (FLW Standard).

These guidelines clarify and contextualise the requirements from the UK Guidelines for Measuring and Reporting Food Surplus and Waste (UK Guidelines), for the retail sector, based on retailers’ specific operational considerations.

The purpose is to help food retailers measure and report on food surplus and waste that occurs within their own operations, so they can reduce it through evidence-driven strategies.

Updated Household Food Waste Figures
More recent headline data on food waste for this sector was published by WRAP in May 2018

November 2011

Research shows that annual UK household food and drink waste has fallen by 1.1 million tonnes (13%) over a three year period from 8.3 million tonnes to an estimated 7.2 million tonnes. This avoided food and drink waste would fill the Wembley Stadium in London to the brim.

In this section you will find the Health & Safety (H&S) manual template as well as the Quality, Environmental and Health & Safety (QEHS) manual template, both of which can be used to set up your company’s manuals.