“Win. Don’t bin” – that is the theme of this year’s Food Waste Action Week, run by government-funded body WRAP and its daughter campaign Love Food, Hate Waste. It follows the usual trend of food waste campaigns putting most of the onus on households and individuals to reduce their waste. In comparison, my preferred alternativeContinue reading “Food Waste Action Week should look beyond households”
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Food waste in hospitality: ‘The pub taught me that sustainability is joy’
Story by Natalie Pearson | @foodwastestoriesImage by Erin Chapman | @erins_illustrations ‘I’ve always loved nature and I’ve always loved food, but then when you watch something like Planet Earth… I’ve got angry and I’ve mourned about what the world’s doing… and then I’ve come the other side going… you’ve actually got to positively harness that energyContinue reading “Food waste in hospitality: ‘The pub taught me that sustainability is joy’”
Make businesses report their food waste
This consultation is now closed. Thank you to everyone who filled it in! Currently, businesses do not have to report how much food they waste. They can waste as much food as they want without being held accountable. But that might soon change! The government is consulting on new policy that will make food wasteContinue reading “Make businesses report their food waste”
Pulp fiction? What Oatly, Califia and Alpro do with their oat milk by-product
We are living in the age of oat milk. Recent research found that in the UK, oat milk has overtaken almond milk as the No. 1 plant-based alternative to dairy, with £146m spent on the drink in 2020, doubling from £74m in 2019. It is likely that the number for 2021 will be even higher.Continue reading “Pulp fiction? What Oatly, Califia and Alpro do with their oat milk by-product”
Getting wasted with food waste
Last week I went to “The World’s Most Rubbish Bar” presented by Discarded Spirits Co., a company that turns food waste into alcoholic spirits. I was excited to see how parts of food that are normally thrown away could be made into something useful and delicious. As a disclaimer, I tried making notes on myContinue reading “Getting wasted with food waste”
Why might 120,000 pigs have to be wasted in the UK?
“This will haunt people for the rest of their lives.” Kate Moore, pig farmer in East Yorkshire Farmers in the UK are facing the prospect of slaughtering 120,000 healthy pigs because there are not enough workers in abattoirs (slaughterhouses) due to a Brexit-induced labour shortage. Around 80% of skilled butchers in the UK are fromContinue reading “Why might 120,000 pigs have to be wasted in the UK?”
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