All Food waste articles – Page 9
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NewsWholesaler Mark Murphy Dole reduces food waste by a third
The wholesaler estimated 20 tonnes of fresh food went to waste per year before the review
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NewsGeorge Wright to step down as FareShare CEO
John Bason, chair of FareShare since 2012 and formerly finance director of Associated British Foods, will act as executive chair
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NewsShropshire Trading achieves B Corp recognition for preventing stock waste
The independent wholesaler has been recognised for keeping food and drink items in the supply chain for longer
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NewsCook and The Felix Project partner to redistribute end-of-line surplus food
The process has helped Cook redistrbute an estimated 16 tonnes of end-of-line surplus food
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NewsFood businesses urge government to introduce mandatory food waste reporting
Thirty-three companies including Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Abel & Cole, Olio and Bidfood signed a joint letter to environment secretary Steve Reed
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NewsWho Gives a Crap adds bin bags and dog poo bags ‘made from waste’
All bags are leak and tear ‘resistant’ with easy tie handles
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NewsRecycling firm launches to diffuse ‘global recycling timebomb’ of vapes
The company’s first machine can handle 10 tonnes of vapes per week (around 400,000 vapes), but it plans to expand and “scale at pace” across Europe
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NewsIceland to extend ‘mystery bags’ food surplus trial with Olio
The £2 ‘lucky dip’ mystery bags contain a selection of close to sell-by date Iceland groceries, equivalent to £10
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NewsAppleby Westward trials Too Good To Go’s AI-powered platform to optimise markdowns
The AI-powered software allows stores to streamline food waste management processes and optimise markdown decisions
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NewsCentral Co-op renews tie-up with Retail Insight to tackle food waste
The society will work with the software provider for a further three years, having first adopted Retail Insight’s WasteInsight platform in 2021
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NewsFilco scraps refill stations after finding them ‘waste of time and money’
Director Matthew Hunt told The Grocer he had dedicated six metres of room to position the stations in each store, with installation costing around £10,000
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NewsAsda extends Too Good To Go partnership to nearly 1,000 stores
Asda’s rollout covers its supermarkets and Asda Express stores, as well as the foodservice sites located in Asda stores such as Leon, Greggs, Sbarro and Subway
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Comment & OpinionThe UK is the poor relation in global surplus food efforts
In countries like Australia, Singapore and Mexico, significant advances in policy and technology have supercharged surplus redistribution efforts, says George Wright, FareShare CEO
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NewsCharities tackling food waste fear £15m fund ‘in limbo’ due to budget black hole
The fund is now in doubt as new environment secretary Steve Reed considers if it will form a part of his circular economy strategy
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NewsOwen McLellan to step down as MD of Company Shop Group
McLellan has run the surplus food redistribution company since January 2023 and overseen a turnaround in its fortunes
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NewsFermtech hits crowdfunding target to scale up production of fermented protein source
Fermtech makes clean-label protein by growing fungi from food waste, using spent grains from a local brewery in a patent-pending system
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NewsThe Felix Project launches new tool for companies in London’s war on food waste
Felix Connect is a streamlined service that reduces the time and investment needed to redistribute the food
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Comment & OpinionUnfinished Beef: Netflix hot dog eating contest is a spectacle of excess
The contestants proved surprisingly interesting… but competitive eating is gross
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Comment & OpinionPut yourself in your customers’ shoes… and solve their problems!
If you want to change the world, you have to throw a better party than those destroying it, says Jenny Costa of Rubies in the Rubble