Mayor of London launches scheme to help small businesses cut food waste

13 November 2013 by
Mayor of London launches scheme to help small businesses cut food waste

A new scheme to help small businesses cut food waste has today been launched by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson.

Over the next 18 months, 240 small and medium-sized businesses will work with the Mayor, the European Regional Development Fund and the London Waste and Recycling Board to cut their food waste. The Sustainable Restaurant Association will also be involved, working with restaurants, hotels, pubs, quick-service restaurants and canteens. Meanwhile, food-and-farming alliance Sustain will oversee food manufacturers, food retail outlets, street food sellers, market stalls and caterers.
The aim is to save £360,000 and 1,000 tonnes of waste by March 2015.

As well as identifying where food is most wasted and endeavouring to reduce it, measures will also include sending surplus food to organisations that redistribute food to those who need it most; directing surplus and off-cut food to animals such as pigs; and generating renewable energy or composting any unavoidable waste.

The initiative comes in the same week as Vision 20:20, a report from food waste recycler ReFood, was released, which urged households, businesses and the public sector to aim for "a food waste-free future by 2020".

Food businesses can find out more about the FoodSave project and how to get involved at www.foodsave.org.

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