Resources
Outlining progress made in the second year of the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap.
- More than 70 new food organisations have joined the Roadmap in the last twelve months, committing to ‘Target, Measure, Act’ on food waste in their operations, supply chain and customer base.
- Businesses implementing 'Target, Measure, Act' have increased from 121 to 171.
- 180,000t of food (worth £300m) across 45 companies reporting comparable data has been saved from becoming waste by Roadmap members.
- New Whole Chain toolkit equips businesses to tackle supply chain food waste farm to fork.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Whole chain resource efficiency
- UN SDG 12.3
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
This guidance provides detailed advice and practical examples on approaches for measuring food waste in effluent streams, primarily for food producers and manufacturers, supporting delivery of the UK’s Food Waste Reduction Roadmap.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Manufacturers
- Waste management and reprocessors
This document sets out to clarify the differences between the materials used to make plastic packaging, the way plastics can behave and, the terminology used to describe plastics.
- Plastic Packaging
- Eliminating problem plastics
- Manufacturers
These reports detail the technological challenges and market opportunities involved in recycling aluminium plastic laminated tubes and pouches.
- Plastic Packaging
- Collections & recycling
- Manufacturers
Increasing recycling rates can be achieved either by increasing the capture of products that are already widely collected and recycled, or by providing collections and recycling routes that are not commonly recycled, or that are not recycled at all.
- Eliminating problem plastics
- Re-use and recycling
- Manufacturers
This customisable template is for use to support your reporting to food waste destinations only.
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Hospitality and food service
The second in a series of reports detailing how UK citizens’ food habits, behaviours and attitudes have changed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Household food waste
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
Galvanising the entire plastics value chain around a common roadmap for flexible plastic packaging.
- Plastic Packaging
- Eliminating problem plastics
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Plastic packaging design
- Global Plastics Pacts
- Film and flexible packaging
- Waste management and end markets
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers
- Trade associations
- National government and departments
A cross-industry vision to optimise productivity and minimise waste from farm to fork.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Guardians of Grub
- Guardians of Grub Becoming a Champion
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Food date labelling
- Meat, poultry and fish
- Whole chain resource efficiency
- Household food waste
- UN SDG 12.3
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Trade associations
Date labels, storage advice and freezing for food safety
This summary information produced by WRAP, the Food Standards Agency and Defra covers date labelling and storage instruction requirements for surplus food, in order for it to be safely redistributed. The aim is to increase the amount of food made available by food businesses for redistribution and accepted by recipient organisations.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Guardians of Grub
- Food date labelling
- Meat, poultry and fish
- Fresh produce sector
- Dairy sector
- Bakery sector
- Ambient foods sector
- Convenience, chilled foods and frozen
- UN SDG 12.3
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers
- Trade associations
- Non-governmental organisations
- Circular Economy Fund
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers
- Trade associations
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
- Practical guides developed with industry.
- Help plan and undertake field measurements.
- Field Record Sheet & Reporting Template to help record measurements.
- Enable growers to identify opportunities to reduce waste and increase marketed yield.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- UN SDG 12.3
- Farmers and growers
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Trade associations