Food: Waste

(asked on 12th January 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of trends in the volume of food waste reported by businesses in the last three years.


Answered by
Robbie Moore Portrait
Robbie Moore
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 22nd January 2024

We are committed to tackling food waste both in the home and across the supply chain and we are working towards eliminating all food waste being sent to landfill by 2030.

This year more than £2 million will be spent on a food waste prevention programme delivered by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) which includes working with businesses to measure, report and take action on reducing their food waste. Latest data from WRAP shows that between 2018-21 retail food waste fell by 8.5% and manufacturing food waste fell by 9.2%. Furthermore, in line with the commitment in the Net Zero Strategy, we are exploring options for the near elimination of municipal biodegradable waste, including food waste, to landfill from 2028. We issued a call for evidence on 26 May 2023 to support detailed policy development. A Government Response to this call for evidence and further information will be published in due course.

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