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Businesses report surge in food waste due to supply chain issues

Businesses report surge in food waste due to supply chain issues

UK businesses have reported a surge in food waste over the last six months, with many organisations attempting to revamp supply chains to respond to resource shortages which have led to a deprioritisation of waste targets.

WRAP: Food redistribution by UK organisations reached record high in 2021, likely to keep rising

Iceland Foods adds flexible plastic recycling bins to more than 140 UK stores

‘This could be a transformative moment’: Coca-Cola to increase use of reusable bottles

Asda and Unilever partner with WRAP to help make refillable packaging more popular

Fashion and textile giants pass carbon and water reduction goals, but fail to tackle waste

Britvic switches more brands to 100% recycled plastic bottles

Dixons Carphone launches nationwide polystyrene takeback scheme

Maltesers ditches black plastic liners from boxes

Gousto and DPD launch new courier scheme to redistribute surplus food

Co-op launches village-wide behaviour change study for recycling soft plastics

WRAP receives Walmart funding to drive food waste behaviour change in UK and Canada

UK food and drink sector to halve emissions by 2030, under updated WRAP targets

Coca-Cola to use 100% recycled plastics for all on-the-go bottles in the UK

Sainsbury’s rolls out flexible plastic recycling scheme nationwide

WRAP: 2020 was record year for food redistribution by UK firms

Fighting food waste: Co-op and Hubbub partner to launch 100 new community fridges

Aldi launches in-store recycling scheme for problem plastics

B Corp Oddbox targets net-zero emissions by 2030

Textiles 2030: Fashion giants pledge to halve climate impacts
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