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Dr Marcus Gover, chief executive of resources charity WRAP, has announced he will be leaving at the end of the year after six years in the role.

WRAP has said its Food Waste Action Week was a “great success”, highlighting that it has helped “galvanise the public” to reduce food waste.

Ocado is to scrap best before labels on some fruit and vegetables in an effort to cut food waste. The move will save edible food from being thrown away. (stock image)

UK food and drink sector to halve emissions by 2030, under updated WRAP targets WRAPs Courtauld Commitment, which has been singed by more than 90% of the UKs food retailers as well as major businesses across the food value chain, has been extended to 2030, with a new ambition to halve absolute emissions. The Commitment has more than 150 signatories, covering big names from across the food value chain The update to the Commitment, posted today (20 July), sees 2025 targets on carbon, food waste a...

UK food and drinks sector unveils fresh waste, water, and carbon goals for 2030 Share The Courtauld Commitment has enhanced its food waste and CO2 targets for 2030 | Credit: iStock Voluntary Courtauld Commitment ramps up collective industry targets to meet newer demands of climate action head on in run up to COP26 The UK food and drink industry has collectively pledged to ramp up its food waste and greenhouse gas reduction efforts, today announcing plans to halve both by the end of the decade a...

By Ian Quinn2021-07-20T00:01:00+01:00 Food and drink companies have agreed to “make or break” new targets to tackle greenhouse gas emissions and food waste, after conceding a previous flagship commitment was not ambitious enough. After months of talks with food and drink companies and trade bodies, Wrap announced it was side-lining its Courtauld 2025 Commitment, launched in 2015, with a new set of promises backed by dozens of the UK’s biggest food retailers and suppliers to take “bold...

Nobody wants to see good food go to waste. Yet, as a country, we waste 1.2 million tomatoes a day. We throw away 3.1 million glasses worth of milk and we waste 920,000 bananas. These numbers are shocking, and made all the worse by the untold damage that our wastefulness is doing to our environment. Those 1.2 million tomatoes we throw away every day generate 113,000 tons of CO2 emissions – through the labour that goes into seeding, the watering, the fertiliser, the harvesting and the transport...

More than 92,000 tonnes of surplus food was redistributed in the UK last year, marking a 45% year-on-year increase, partly caused by the response to Covid-19.

Natural coatings as an ally to reduce food waste Food loss is a significant issue in today’s world; the food that is not consumed and is wasted constitutes a loss in the fight against hunger and malnutrition. Food losses directly impact food security, quality and safety, economic development, and the environment. Food waste is associated with a waste of resources, including water, energy, land, inputs, and GHG emissions. Definitions of “food loss” and “food waste” Food loss and waste,...