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By Howard Mustoe
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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, charities and buyers queued up to take it off him.
Six thousand pounds worth of milk was among the items at Creed Foodservice that would have to be dumped if a customer couldn t be found for it after schools suddenly closed.
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By Jerome Smail2021-02-04T11:12:00+00:00
Source: BBF
Cake maker BBF is working with major supermarkets to reduce the plastic used in its packaging by over 22 tonnes annually.
The manufacturer has also committed to cease the use of black plastic, which is harder to recycle, and offer plastic-free alternatives for packaging where possible.
The pledges are the latest in a line of environmental initiatives from BBF, which produces more than 600 million cakes annually for retailers in the UK, Europe and Australia.
Since 2017 the company has been fulfilling a zero waste to landfill commitment, while also reducing electricity and gas usage by 8.5% and 4.5%, respectively.
Smart sustainable plastic packaging projects for recycle week
22 September 2020
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is announcing nearly one quarter of a million pounds in funding for projects to address plastic waste and improve the UK’s recycling capabilities during Recycle Week.
The funding is being awarded as part of the Feasibility Studies for Demonstrators competition, a constituent of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) challenge, run on behalf of the UK government.
The projects aim to help the UK tackle the challenge of plastic pollution in the environment through the development of a more sustainable plastic packaging value chain in the UK.