The waste food going to landfills is an invisible but important part of greenhouse gas emissions. Could discarded scraps be turned into new food instead? In a two-storey building on the harbour at ...

Over 30 supermarkets and food producers have called on the government to introduce compulsory reporting of food waste. Retailers and brands including Tesco – which recently unveiled a facility ...

Steve Reed, the secretary of state at Defra, has expressed frustration at the UK’s failure to get the right food to the right people. And reducing food waste is also central to tackling the ...

Despite these schemes, Tesco reported more than 35,000 tonnes of food waste in the UK last year. But now staff will get priority on food which have been reduced earlier in the day and then ...

Food waste is a significant issue with environmental, economic, and social consequences - the UK generates around 10.7 million tonnes of food waste each year, according to the Waste and Resources ...

The survey gathers and monitors evidence on consumers attitudes, knowledge and behaviours around food waste in the home. The current dataset was collected in June 2024 over the course of 4,740 ...

adds up to around $1 trillion worth of lost food every year. All of this waste may send as much as three billion new tons of greenhouse gasses emitted into the atmosphere. But new research into ...