Hospitality and Food Service teams – you can still make a difference
Throughout November we ran our Food matters: make it count campaign as an energy boost to kick-start action to reduce food waste. November was a great opportunity to get food waste prevention action plans in place before the sector’s busiest month of December.
We called on Hospitality and Food Service CEOs and senior leaders to rise up and lead the way to tackling food waste across the sector.
We stood together, as a sector, to demonstrate the impact we can generate through our effective action plans and creative solutions to drive down food waste.
Thank you to everyone who supported the campaign to spread the word to many more people.
Food continues to matters: so let’s make it count, today and every day. From kitchens to boardrooms, from menus to balance sheets.
DIARY DATE: FOOD WASTE ACTION WEEK 17 – 23 MARCH 2025
Our next campaign will be during Food Waste Action Week – 17 – 23 March 2025. We’ll share more information as soon as we can.
We’d love your support to reach as many people as possible during the campaign!
WHY IS REDUCING FOOD WASTE IMPORTANT?
Every year our sector throws away 1.1 million tonnes of food. 75% of the food we bin could have been eaten, costing our sector £3.2 billion.
If we save food from the bin, then we can cut business costs and save money too.
We also make the most of the planet’s precious resources that have already been used to grow, produce and transport the food to our businesses and organisations.
Take a look at the return on investment that you could generate by reading *‘The business case for reducing food loss and waste.’ It identified an average return on investment of 1:14 across a range of Hospitality and Food Service businesses; for every £1 invested in reducing food waste businesses realised a £14 return.
Bringing circular living to life through measurable action.
* Report by the group Champions SDG12.3 which includes WRAP.
TAKE ACTION TODAY
Be part of the community taking action by:
- Signing up to WRAP’s Food waste reduction roadmap – a great framework for formalising your actions in the most efficient and effective way.
- Embedding the simple principles of food waste reduction Target-Measure-Act – creating and implementing action plans that are practical, realistic and achievable.
- Proactively share your data with WRAP annually so that we can celebrate how well the sector is progressing and identify common challenges where the sector needs more help to succeed.
