All Food waste articles – Page 31
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NewsSouthern Co-op extends trial to sell food beyond best before date to 11 stores
Move follows an initial trial that kicked off at two Hampshire stores in December 2019 and February 2020
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NewsWholesalers face £30m bill as thousands of tonnes of food is wasted
The figure is three times higher than the Federation of Wholesale Distributors estimated for wasted goods in August 2020
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ProfilesMy food & drink job: James Eid, founder, Earth & Wheat
James founded the UK’s first wonky bread subscription service to minimise food waste at his family’s business, Signature Flatbreads
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NewsFareShare celebrates 130 million meals redistributed in a year working with Marcus Rashford
It is an average of four meals every second to vulnerable children, families and individuals
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NewsWyke joins fight over ‘ruinous’ AD plants rates hike
AD plant operators were being treated ’unduly harshly’ by the hike, said Wyke Farms MD Rich Clothier
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Analysis & FeaturesAll the food & drink B Corps certified this year – and how they did it
In celebration of B Corp Month, we list every food & drink company that has been certified this year and find out how they did it
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Analysis & FeaturesCovid entrepreneurs: seven food & drink startups that launched in the pandemic
Covid couldn’t break the startup spirit in the food & drink sector. From shops to delivery, cookery classes to functional drinks, here are seven new launches
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NewsToo Good To Go teams up with FareShare to fight hunger
Too Good To Go users will have the chance to make donations of £2, £4 or £6 directly to FareShare through the anti-waste app
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News‘Wonky bread’ subscription box scheme launched to fight food waste
For every box ordered, Earth & Wheat will the equivalent of a meal’s worth of bread (450g) to food banks ‘to help fight food poverty in the UK’
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NewsEG Group rescues 260,000 meals with Too Good To Go across UK and Europe
The fast-growing forecourt operator teamed up with the anti-waste app in October last year
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Analysis & FeaturesThe female entrepreneurs tackling the big challenges in grocery
Here’s how female entrepreneurs are challenging the industry’s big issues through brands, inventions and initiatives
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Analysis & FeaturesHow Too Good to Go is fighting food waste on the front line
The food waste app hopes to triple the amount of meals it saves in the UK this year. So what is it doing to make that happen?
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Comment & OpinionHow grocery can unite to take meaningful action on food waste
The Consumer Goods Forum has brought together 21 of the world’s largest retailers and manufacturers, says its director of sustainability Ignacio Gavilán
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NewsAlmost a fifth of household food binned, shows new UN report
In a global report, nearly every country found most food waste came from households
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Analysis & FeaturesWill Biffa’s Company Shop buyout cut down on food waste?
Biffa says the deal will help create a circular economy, but there are tensions between commercial and charity redistributors
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Comment & OpinionBurger King is setting a good example on plastic reduction and food waste
BK has signed up to Wrap’s waste reduction roadmap, and pledged to remove all single-use plastic by 2025
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Comment & OpinionRetailers must address their own food waste before preaching to the public
Food Waste Action Week begins today – but retailers, suppliers and the hospitality sector have a long way to go
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NewsRefillable grocery store Earthly Matters opens in London’s Carnaby
The store features dispensers containing products such as nuts, grains and breakfast cereals
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Analysis & FeaturesCan Wrap’s new household food waste campaign work?
Wrap is hoping Nadiya Hussain will have the ‘Attenborough effect’ for food waste in homes
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Comment & OpinionYou can see why Sainsbury’s changed its slogan but it could have done better
Helping Everyone Eat Better is a bit of a mouthful