Diverting Food waste from Landfill initiatives – an in depth look at Hospitality & Foodservice
Michael Savage, Ricardo-AEA: PRESENTATION ONLY
(free)
- The Hospitality & Foodservice Sector and food waste – the big facts and figures, key challenges and opportunities. An overview of the main current initiatives to support businesses including Government e.g. WRAP Hospitality & Foodservice voluntary agreement, Zero Waste to landfill regulations and Private sector e.g. Unilever Wise up on waste toolkit, Nestle waste training module, The ‘Pig idea’ etc
- How these challenges can be overcome including looking at the financial savings and why preventing food waste makes more business sense than recycling. Monitoring, measuring and avoiding food waste in a hospitality business. The structure of the sector, changing behaviour of employees, new technologies and the viability of separate food waste collection.
- The final section reflects on whether these initiatives are proving to be successful. Looking at examples of what companies are doing to divert food waste from landfill and what is the outlook for the future in the sector