INDUSTRY NEWS
Government announces £1m fund to fight food waste
THE government announced on 30 January it will be offering businesses and not-for-profits in England £1.15 million of funding to help them come up with inventive solutions to the problem of food waste.
From educating the public on how to store fresh food, to ideas such as turning food waste into new, edible products, grants will be available for creative solutions to address this pressing environmental challenge.
The government’s Food Waste Champion, Ben Elliot, also announced that he will hold the first ever ‘Food Waste Action Week’ from Monday 11 May and called on households and businesses across the country to join forces to reduce food waste.
“The country’s first ever Food Waste Action Week will be taking place from Monday 11 May and I encourage and implore everyone to get stuck in, joining together and taking the fight to food waste,” he said. “More details will be provided shortly on what we must all do to reduce food waste at home and at work.”
With 4.5 million tonnes of food wasted every year, the new grants are the latest step in the government’s drive to reduce food waste in the UK by 20% by 2025 and form part of a wider £15 million scheme to specifically address surplus food from the retail and manufacturing sectors.
This comes on the same day that the government’s landmark Environment Bill was introduced to Parliament, reconfirming a commitment to reduce the UK’s food waste footprint. It sets out how government will mandate weekly collections of food waste for every household, subject to consultation.
The UK is a global leader in tackling food waste. However, UK households still waste 4.5 million tonnes of food that could have been eaten every year, equivalent to ten billion meals.
The Citizen Food Waste Prevention and Value From Food Waste grants will be managed by sustainability not-for- profit WRAP, which works closely with governments, businesses and citizens to reduce food waste, from running public awareness campaigns such as Love Food Hate Waste, to working with local councils to offer residents separate food waste collections.
Peter Maddox, Director of WRAP, said: “WRAP is pleased to be managing the Resource Action Fund on behalf of Defra. We are looking forward to receiving applications from innovative and imaginative programmes and projects that will have a real impact in reducing the level of food waste in our homes and making sure we get more value from food waste in supply chains – priorities for both WRAP and Defra.”
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