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Retailers join sustainable action plan Textiles 2030 Primark, Next, M&S, John Lewis, and Asos are amongst the retailers who have joined sustainable action plan, Textiles 2030. Signatories of the 10 year voluntary agreement, launched by not-for-profit organisation Wrap (Waste and Resources Action Programme), have committed to reduce carbon by 50%, and reduce the aggregate water footprint of new products sold by 30%. All signatories have planned to achieve both aims by 2030. As part of the roadma...

Fyffes commits to reducing food loss in its own operations by 80% by 2030 About a third of all the food produced in the world goes to waste each year, representing about 7% of total greenhouse gas emissions. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), an area larger than China is used to grow food that is never eaten.  Reducing food loss and educating people on food waste are key targets of Fyffes Healthy Food for Healthy Lives sustainability pillar, in line...

More new solar-powered bins coming to Grimsby and Cleethorpes The bins are designed to compress rubbish so they do not need to be emptied as often as standard bins 15:01, 17 MAR 2021 New solar powered bins that can hold ten times more rubbish are being installed in North East Lincolnshire. Sign up to the Grimsby Live newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to...

The real cost of your clothes: These are the fabrics with the best and worst environmental impact Sarah Young © Provided by The Independent Boxy leather jackets and breezy cotton dresses are mainstays in many of our wardrobes but do we really know just how much our favourite fashion pieces are affecting the environment? An industry that thrives on providing consumers with the latest trends, fashion’s rapid turnover means that each year we consume approximately 80bn pieces o...

Of the 121kg of consumer-level food thrown away each year for every person on the planet, more than half (74kg) is disposed of by households. Photo: AFP Seventeen per cent of the food available to consumers worldwide in 2019 – almost one billion tonnes – were thrown away by households, retailers, institutions and the hospitality industry, far more than previously suspected, the United Nations said recently. "The scale of the problem is just huge," Richard Swannell, development director of t...

PARIS, France (AFP) — Seventeen per cent of the food available to consumers worldwide in 20...

The average household bins around 163 lbs (74 kg) of leftovers every year, the United Nations Food Waste Index Report 2021 has warned. This contributes to the 931 million tonnes of food waste the world generates annually — equivalent to 17 per cent of all the food available to consumers in 2019. The report was produced by the UN Environment Programme in tandem with the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), a British charity. It is part of the so-called UN Sustainable Development Goal ...

PARIS - Seventeen percent of the food available to consumers worldwide in 2019 -- almost one billion tonnes -- was thrown away by households, retailers, institutions and the hospitality industry, far more than previously suspected, the UN said Thursday.

BBC News By Howard Mustoe image copyrightMichaels Agri Photography image captionLarger celeriac is usually sold to caterers, leaving a glut of them as they closed for lockdown Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of food is thrown away in the UK every year. With coronavirus lockdowns closing restaurants, cafes and pubs, there is even more food potentially going to waste. But charities and apps are stepping in. When wholesaler Philip de Ternant had thousands of pounds worth of food going to waste, ch...

Revealed: UK’s largest supermarkets throw away enough food for 190 million meals each year David Cohen © Provided by The Independent Supermarkets are throwing away the equivalent of 190 million meals a year that could be given to the hungry, The Independent reveals today. The latest data shows that Britain’s top 10 chains are donating less than 9 per cent of their surplus food for human consumption. Just 24,242 tons was passed on to the needy out of 282,338 tons of unsold...