We're committed to tackling food waste which is why we've signed up to the UK’s Food Waste Reduction Roadmap. If your business hasn't yet signed up, we encourage you to:
Visit wrap.org.uk/food-waste-reduction-roadmap and sign up to the Roadmap
Contact FoodWasteRoadmap@wrap.org.uk if you have any question
Please confirm your organisation’s food waste commitments and overall progress in the Grocery Climate Action Programme run in partnership with M2030-) - find out more here
In the UK 10.7 million tonnes of food go to waste. With food waste contributing 8-10% of all non-natural greenhouse gas emissions and demand for surplus food continuing to grow, this is not acceptable.
The Food Waste Reduction Roadmap is the leading free access initiative for UK food businesses, developed by industry in collaboration with WRAP and IGD. Signing up to the Roadmap is how we and all UK businesses demonstrate our commitment to delivering our contribution to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 to halve food waste by 2030. Whilst it's not our preferred option, it is possible to ask WRAP to keep your commitment anonymous when you sign up to the Roadmap.
Defra have made it clear that the Government also remains committed to tackling food waste. Last November the Secretary of State decided to look again at how best to secure the benefits of food waste reporting and to re-consider all the options using the latest available data in order to retake the decision on the consultation on improved food waste reporting by large businesses in England. In the meantime, Defra continues to engage with initiatives to increase sign up to the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap and it is reassuring that the reporting template published by Defra as part of the consultation was aligned with the reporting template used under the Roadmap.
The UK’s Devolved Administrations all support the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap.
You can also be assured that many of the UK’s leading food and drink businesses have committed to the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap. This letter is part of an industry-wide call to action supported by WRAP and it is likely that your other customers will also send you a similar letter. If you are one of the 315 businesses that have also signed up to the Roadmap, we would like to thank you for demonstrating strong leadership. Together we have delivered an important 20% reduction in food waste across the UK supply chain since 2007, but we have much further to go.
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