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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 as part of a plan designed to slash costs across the industry by billions of pounds a year.

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 “bolder” action to prevent an environmental disaster from climate change. Its most striking move is a n...

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.  If everyone threw away no food for one day, it would do the same for tackling climate change as ...

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, which sometimes are used as synonyms, constitute two different processes. Food losses refer to the ...