The UK’s largest retailers, food producers, manufacturers, hospitality and food service companies have committed to ambitious milestones laid out in a new ground-breaking industry Food Waste Reduction Roadmap developed with research and training charity IGD and WRAP in order to further reduce the UK’s food waste problem.
The Roadmap encompasses the entire supply chain from field to fork and shows the actions large businesses will take to address food waste both in their own operations and by working to support their suppliers. It also sets out how these businesses can engage with consumers to help reduce their food waste.
The Roadmap has the support of the UK’s largest food and trade bodies, businesses across the supply chain and Defra, Welsh and Scottish Governments.
By September 2019, the first major milestone on the Roadmap is to have 50% of the UK’s largest 250 food businesses measuring, reporting and acting on food waste.