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26-05-2017 | Across the UK, fine dining chefs want people to stop thinking of rejected food and by-products of the food chain as waste. The aim is to make flavour a part of the food waste narrative and it involves ...

14-03-2017 | On 18-19 May 2017 in Berlin, REFRESH Food Waste 2017 will bring together diverse stakeholder groups working on food waste from across Europe. REFRESH Food Waste 2017, the multi-stakeholder conference connecting champions of food waste reduction and valorisation, ...

Tesco has launched an innovative, online ‘food waste hotline’, to help make it easier for suppliers and growers to pinpoint ongoing food waste hotspots, and work with the retailer in tackling them. The ‘hotline’ is accessible to all Tesco suppliers ...

02-02-2017 | While the US media have been solidly focused on politics, the developments around the market trials of the Arctic Apple have gone largely unnoticed. This genetically modified (GM) apple will hit the shelves of ten selected stores in ...

20-01-2017 | A matchmaking app that allows suppliers to buy and sell food that would otherwise be dumped has been developed by Asda. Created to address the challenge of food waste in the supply chain, Asda Surplus Swap connects suppliers ...

23-11-2016 | King-sized kiwis, curvy squash and smaller-than-usual apples and limes. That was the “ugly” produce count in boxes of fruits and vegetables Deborah Levine recently received at her home in the San Francisco Bay Area. While most of the ...

In the Netherlands, tens of millions of loaves of breads are returned to bakeries every year. These unsold loaves are mostly processed into animal feed, but what if there was another use for them - as an ingredient for cakes ...

Food waste innovators wanted! REFRESH, a European project on food waste, has launched its Food Waste Solution Contest and is looking for the freshest ideas to tackle food waste across Europe. The contest aims to highlight and support solutions to food ...

20-09-2016 | The UK Parliament is considering legislation to ban people from wasting food in Britain. The Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee has received submissions from industry players, including farmers and consumer groups, on whether laws should be introduced ...

20-07-2016 | Sainsbury’s is ramping up its drive against food waste with a push to get people to make bread out of bruised and blackened bananas. One in five Brits eats a banana every day according to the supermarket, but nearly ...