Food Waste

How and why we should look to reduce our food waste and guidance to support with reducing food waste.

60% of food waste comes from our homes in the UK – quote for pink box

Love Food Hate Waste is a campaign that provides tips, recipes, guides and blogs on how to buy loose, store, use up and enjoy your food to reduce food waste and save money.

Love Food Hate Waste
https://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/

Zero Waste Scotland also provides several resources that can support you with reducing your food waste.

Food Waste
https://www.zerowastescotland.org.uk/topics/food-drink/food-waste

Food waste in landfills produces harmful greenhouse gases, such as methane, contributing to climate change. By recycling food waste, we can mitigate the environmental impact of food waste, reduce the need for landfill space, and generate valuable resources, such as compost and renewable energy. Keenan Recycling provides a beginners guide to food waste recycling in the UK.

A Beginners Guide to Food Waste Recycling in the UK
https://keenanrecycling.co.uk/a-beginners-guide-to-food-waste-recycling-in-the-uk/

FareShare is the UK’s national network of charitable food redistributors, made up of 18 independent organisations. They take good quality nutritious surplus food from right across the food industry and redistribute it to nearly 8,000 frontline charities and community groups. Every week they provide enough food to create almost a million meals for vulnerable people

FareShare
https://fareshare.org.uk/

This House of Commons Library research briefing takes an in-depth look at food waste, reduction targets in the UK and food waste in different sectors.

Food waste in the UK
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7552/CBP-7552.pdf

Food Waste in the Sport Sector

Food waste is a significant issue in the sport sector, this article looks at the scale of the sports event food waste problem.

Food Waste at Major Sporting Events: An Olympic-Sized Problem
https://biotech4.co.uk/sports-event-food-waste/

Save Today Play Tomorrow provides some tips and support for football clubs on how to reduce food waste.

Food Waste in Sports Clubs
https://www.savetodayplaytomorrow.com/food-waste-in-sports-clubs

Northampton Town FC Community Trust ran a project called the Cobblers Tackle Food Waste project to use the power of football to bring together the people of Northamptonshire and reduce food waste throughout the county.