Resources
Guide
1 March 2015
WRAP has produced this guide to help health, safety and environment managers; or others with management responsibilities to improve the efficiency of their organisation’s use of resources – e.g. raw materials, water, energy – as a means of improving the performance of their business.
Initiatives:
- Plastic Packaging
- Waste management and end markets
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Commercial waste
Sector:
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers
- Trade associations
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
Report
1 November 2013
This report is a quantification of the true cost of food waste in the UK’s Hospitality and Food Service industry.
More recent headline figures for food waste in the sector have been published in the Courtauld Commitment 2025 Milestone Progress Report.
Initiatives:
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Guardians of Grub
- Guardians of Grub Becoming a Champion
Sector:
- Hospitality and food service
- Trade associations
Report
Initiatives:
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Guardians of Grub
- Meat, poultry and fish
- Fresh produce sector
- Dairy sector
- Bakery sector
- Ambient foods sector
- Convenience, chilled foods and frozen
- Whole chain resource efficiency
- UN SDG 12.3
Sector:
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Trade associations
- National government and departments