A UK-based packaging company have created a film that they claim can extend fruit and vegetable shelf-life by ‘two to five days’ and are taking commercial enquiries from UK and Europe.
A half-million pound fund (€600,000) has been launched in the UK to support demonstration projects that encourage the collection of food waste from businesses and public sector buildings.
The UK Government must adopt a more consistent and coherent strategy to explain the vital role packaging plays in cutting food waste, said the head of packaging research body INCPEN.
Aid agencies should join forces with companies to develop packaging industries in developing countries as part of a strategy to cut food waste across the globe, said EUROPEN chief Julian Carroll at a top level summit this week.
Construction of the UK’s largest anaerobic digestion (AD) plant is about to begin after the specialist technology provider completed its detailed design of the site.
Increased collection of food waste is underpinning confidence in the UK’s composting sector, the Waste and Resource Action Programme (WRAP) and Association for Organic Recycling (AFOR) have said.
A ban on dumping packaging and food waste in landfill will form the heart of a consultation exercise by the UK Government in 2010 as part of plans to slash waste.
Pressure continues on the bakery industry to design solutions to combat food waste as figures reveal that UK consumers bin seven million slices of bread every day.
The Chilled Food Association (CFA) said that it welcomes the decision by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to alter its definition of food waste so that waste from ‘store bought’ ready meals is kept separate from waste from ‘take-aways’.
A project led by UK research group, Campden BRI, and the University of Bath, aims to tackle the amount of packaging waste by designing a more efficient way of sealing packs.
About €4.4m (£3m) in additional government funds was released
yesterday to help UK processors develop new methods of reducing the
amount of food waste going into landfills.
In a bid to help UK companies meet food waste disposal targets, the
Yorkshire regional government has launched a project to band
smaller manufacturers together to make collection less costly and
more efficient.
