Tag: food waste

China has stepped up measures to reduce food waste, after President Xi Jinping called the amount wasted “shocking and distressing”. The “Clean Plate Campaign” comes…

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has unveiled a comprehensive platform which aims to help the global community move faster to…

Household food waste in the UK has increased by nearly a third as coronavirus lockdown restrictions have been eased and could spiral further, new research…

Two major global environmental issues are food contamination and waste disposal. Professor Wong Ming-hung, Advisor (Environmental Science), and Dr. Brian Man Yu-bon, Assistant Professor, at…

Foodprint, a student-led enterprise which runs a social supermarket and redistribution network in Nottingham, has collaborated with the University of Nottingham’s Food Innovation Centre to…

Six weeks after the publication of the EU Farm to Fork Strategy, a new report published today outlines the additional action still needed to put…

In R&D labs, the company is now exploring ways to turn pineapple skins and banana leaves into packaging, developing new snacks from misshapen produce that…

Mountains of produce, including eggs, milk and onions, are going to waste as the COVID-19 pandemic shutters restaurants, restricts transport, limits what workers are able…

Defra (UK) has said its food waste prevention initiative is “bearing fruit”, a year after announcing the first instalment of its £15 million fund to…

Bioeconomy industry association Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) has teamed up with environmental group Zero Waste Europe (ZWE) to produce what it describes as a ‘first-of-its-kind…