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 tackle the issue. Last year, four companies —FareShare, Company Shop Group, The Felix Project and Food Works Sheffield — received £4 million between them “to help overcome barriers to getting food currently going to waste onto people’s plates”.
Defra said in a statement: “This ambitious work is bearing real fruit – with new schemes already diverting tonnes of edible food to charity centres across the country and new highly skilled teams in place to find new, innovative ways to reach hard to reach surplus food.”
Environment minister Rebecca Pow said: “I am determined that we find new and innovative ways to ensure perfectly good, nutritious food does not end up in the bin and is instead redistributed to those who need it. “We have already committed £15 million to cut food waste, and have increased this during the coronavirus pandemic to support this effort even more. This huge challenge has highlighted the value of food and, more than ever, the importance of ensuring good food does not go to waste.”
Source: Let’s Recycle
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