food waste

The case of Kerry

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Kerry Group hosted a media day at its Innovation Centre in Naas, Ireland, and I had the opportunity to attend on behalf of Dairy Industries International.

Business & trade, Ingredients, Sustainability

WRAP’s food & drink industry agreement to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030

Environmental charity WRAP’s pioneering work under the Courtauld Commitment keeps the UK on track to cut carbon, slash food waste and ease water insecurity.

Sustainability

Mengniu and Ecolean promote sustainability

Mengniu Dairy and Ecolean have joined hands to initiate a Sustainability Awareness initiative to the community of Xinjiang, China.

Packaging, Sustainability

New WWF and WRAP report sets out guidance on halving food waste by 2030

The report analyses the EU’s progress on Food Loss and Waste (FLW) and sets out guidance for governments, industry, researchers and NGOs on how to reach this target.

Sustainability

Online retailer urges households not to throw out stockpiled food

Approved Food, the UK’s largest online retailer of surplus food and drink, is continuing to urge shoppers to only buy what they need in the run-up to this year’s Stop Food Waste Day on 29 April 2020.

Sustainability

Arla Foods UK revamps its best-before labels

Arla Foods UK has made the decision to switch to best-before labels from 2020, to attempt to reduce dairy waste.
It has asked milk drinkers to vote on their favourite labels, of which there are three options.

Business & trade, Packaging

Arla signs up for Too Good to Go in Germany

Arla Foods is one of more than 20 companies that has partnered with the “Often Longer Good” campaign being run in Germany by Too Good To Go, a food-rescue company.

Business & trade, End products, Packaging, Sustainability

Nearly a third of consumers bin edible food due to label confusion

New research has found many British adults end up throwing away perfectly edible produce, because they are confused by package labels.

Packaging, Regulatory

Aldi encourages the sniff test in Germany

German supermarket chain Aldi Süd is now including comments on labels encouraging consumers to test dairy products before disposing of them.

Dairy science, End products, Packaging

Reducing milk waste

The news about a new report from WRAP highlighting the fact that 330,000 tonnes of milk are wasted each year in the UK, equivalent to 7% of all milk produced, should give one pause.

Dairy processing, End products, Sustainability

WRAP helping UK tackle milk waste

A new report from WRAP has highlighted that 330,000 tonnes of milk are wasted each year – equivalent to 7% of all milk produced and worth £150 million.

Dairy processing, Dairy science, End products, Ingredients, Sustainability

DairyUK welcome plans to tackle food waste

Dairy UK has welcomed today’s announcement from Britain’s secretary of state Michael Gove of an additional £15 million to tackle food waste and redistribute surplus food.

Business & trade, Dairy processing, End products, Ingredients, Regulatory, Sustainability