Waste & Resources Action Programme

So we really welcome the fact that Andy Burnham has said that this is that what we need to do in order to tackle this, to tackle the underlying drivers, reduce hospital waiting times, support more people with disabilities into work, those sorts of things, rather than crude cuts, which are only going to plunge more people into poverty.

Yeah, and I was just reading that from the Waste and Resources Action Programme that 9.5 to 10.7 million tons of food is wasted annually uh and in the uk and about 60 to 70 percent of that is accounted for just from households so if we're in a country where more than you know three quarters let's say of of the waste is coming from people's own homes how is it possible that Somebody from the outside might think, how is it possible that people in the UK are turning to food banks? Why would they need food banks when there's so much waste already happening? Despite it being such a wealthy country, how do so many people still rely on food banks?

Yeah, it's a really, really good question.

And I think a really important thing to stress at that point is that food insecurity, when we talk about that in the UK, is not a food problem.

Standards body BSI and the ISO launched BS-ISO 2001 on September 30th, the first international management system standard dedicated to food loss and waste.

Developed with Wrap and other experts, it gives farmers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and food service businesses a common framework to plan, monitor, reduce, and report excess food and waste.

Wrap estimates that more than half of food waste in UK manufacturing and retail is avoidable, and the standard is aimed at that share.

The goal is to make waste reduction part of how organizations run day by day, cutting emissions and cost, and to support the UN target of halving per capita food waste at retail and consumer level by twenty-thirty.

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