Beneath the bin lid

Posted on 29 Nov 2013 by The Manufacturer

In the wake of the release of results for phase two of the Courtauld Agreement to reduce food waste in the UK, Will Stirling asks what food manufacturers are doing to contribute. He discovers 2013 has been a landmark year for the reduction of waste in the food supply chain.

Food waste in the UK is a dreadful blight, the bare facts of our wanton profligacy are enough to turn the stomach. In January, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers published a report, Global food: Waste Not Want Not that underlined the dire state of the human population’s food resource efficiency. It found that as much…

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