The UK supermarket Iceland has announced its target to achieve a 50 per cent reduction in food waste in its operations by 2030. Iceland’s Food Waste Report 2019/2020 outlines the supermarket’s commitment to reduce food waste by 50 per cent in its supply chain. This falls in line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal SDG 12.3 which aims to cut food waste by half globally by 2020 and address its significant carbon and methane footprint. The UN Food and Agricultural Association reports that if food waste was a country it would be the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases (after China and the USA).
The supermarket has signed up to the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) Courtauld Commitment 2025, the UK grocery sector’s voluntary agreement to reduce food waste by 20 per cent before the middle of the decade. In January, WRAP released its progress report showing that food waste had fallen by seven per cent per person in three years. To cut food waste in its operations moving forward, Iceland is working to extend the shelf life of its frozen products to up to two years and develop new approaches to packaging, transportation and storage that keeps products safer and fresher for longer.
Responding to research from Manchester Metropolitan University, which revealed that British families could reduce their waste by nearly half (47.5 per cent) by eating frozen food as well as saving money on their weekly shop, Iceland aims to use these findings to inform its ongoing marketing and buying strategies to help its customers to plan, prepare and store food effectively.
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