By Lyndsey Cambridge2021-04-08T09:25:00+01:00
Around £30m worth of food is set to be wasted ahead of the reopening of the hospitality sector
Wholesalers estimate the cost of food waste will set the sector back a “devastating” £30m this quarter as thousands of tonnes of food is sent to landfill.
The figure is three times higher than the Federation of Wholesale Distributors estimated for wasted goods in August 2020, when short-dated stock was being more widely accepted by hospitatlity outlets due to interventions by Defra and Wrap, which included guidance on how to safely store, relabel and distribute stock.
However FWD has told The Grocer wholesale customers are increasingly refusing to accept short-dated goods in the run-up to the partial reopening of the hospitaltiy sector, despite guidence outlining the goods are safe for consumption.