Food companies should have to report how much they throw away as a first step towards reducing the vast amounts of edible food squandered in the UK, a group of prominent businesses have said.
About a third of the food produced globally every year is binned, much of it before it reaches the consumer at a cost of almost £22bn annually to the UK economy.
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NAM Implications:
- Optimising the availability of surplus and potential waste food to people-in-need…
- …would be a help in building public support for the initiative.
