Consumer food waste carries the highest environmental impact compared to losses earlier in the food chain, and it is no longer a problem concentrated only in higher income countries.
Did you know that purchasing foods from the bulk bins plays a significant role in helping to reduce
consumer food waste?
In the past year, food manufacturers and retailers scaled up their ambitions and efforts to cut
consumer food waste by standardizing food date labels, including The Consumer Goods Forum's Call to Action to standardize date labeling worldwide by 2020, complemented by enhanced consumer education of meaning of date labels.
While product date labeling changes may result in reduced
consumer food waste, the majority of food waste continues to be from consumers so clearing up this confusion must be just one of several ways to combat the issue of moving forward.
The states and territories are addressing
consumer food waste by introducing public food waste education and awareness initiatives, and grants programs.
Not exact matches
Included in Goal no. 12 on «responsible consumption and production» is a call to «halve per capita global
food waste at the retail and
consumer levels.»
We have to develop more precise agriculture production methods produce more precise quantities and also make it easier for
consumers to consume more precise quantities, lowering our
food waste.
It would fund campaigns to educate
consumers about
food waste, as well as promote efforts to teach kids in schools about
waste.
Breeding more
consumers will simply hasten the inevitable reckoning we'll face when
waste production dwarfs
food production and a significant percentage of humanity dies off.
Multiply my
consumer expectations and shopping patterns by the thousands of households in the U.S., and we create a staggering epidemic of
food waste.
Businesses from the
Consumer Goods Forum and Champions 12.3 coalition have issued a call to action to simplify and standardise
food date labels worldwide by 2020 in a bid to reduce
food waste as Champions 12.3 releases a progress report on global efforts to reduce
food waste.
Investing in efficient, low - cost and sustainable processing technologies, adequate storage and packaging solutions, road infrastructure and market linkages as well as providing training and education to chain actors, including
consumers, are among the tried and proven interventions which increase the efficiency of the chain and therefore lead to a reduction in
food loss and
waste.
Reducing loss and
waste throughout the
food supply chain should be considered an effective solution to reduce the environmental impacts of agriculture, to improve the income and livelihood of the chain actors and to improve
food and nutrition security for low - income
consumers.
CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and
Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA
Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International
Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The
Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director,
Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for
Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop
Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and
Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa
Target 12.3 of the goals calls for nations to «halve per capita global
food waste at the retail and
consumer levels and reduce
food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses» by 2030.
Here, McGuire, a plant pathologist, explains how her desires to reduce household
food waste and influence
consumer behavior lead her to the natural products industry.
All of Alfa Laval's hygienic
food equipment,
food machinery, and services for the
food processing industry are developed with the aim of keeping up with the
food industry trends and addressing four key challenges; supplying
food products to
consumers at a competitive price, getting the most from raw materials, reducing
waste and emissions, and delivering safe and hygienic
food products.
Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 «ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns» has target 12.3 «by 2030, halve the per capita global
food waste at the retail and
consumer level, and reduce
food losses along production and supply chains including post-harvest losses».
We promote sustainability amongst
consumers through awareness - raising campaigns for recycling, reusing cooking oils, and
food waste reduction techniques.
Taking steps to reduce
food waste in our supply chain as well as making it easier for
consumers to reduce
waste in their homes
More recently, the CGF also called for a global standardisation of
food date labelling to help reduce
waste and
consumer confusion around date labels.
Champions 12.3, a coalition of leaders in
food waste reduction including The
Consumer Goods Forum Managing Director Peter Freedman, have just released a new report.
Food that is fit for human consumption, but is not consumed because it is or left to spoil or discarded by retailers or consumers is called food wa
Food that is fit for human consumption, but is not consumed because it is or left to spoil or discarded by retailers or
consumers is called
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food waste.
The company started in 2015 with the goal of reducing
food waste by encouraging
consumers to buy the less - than - perfect produce that would typically be discarded.
As freegan - centric establishments and documentaries on
food waste continue to rise, we should expect
food waste to become more front - of - mind for
consumers.
«
Consumers today are very conscious not to
waste food,» Schnaars says.
Having a program like this goes far beyond reducing
food waste, offering one more way for retailers to differentiate, develop goodwill with
consumers and increase sales, and now is the time to act.
Another is what the company calls «green guilt» — which means
consumers purchase only what they know they will eat to avoid
food waste.
To overcome the challenge of measuring
food loss and
waste in a complex value chain in Pakistan, we conducted a detailed mapping across the entire value chain (from farms to
consumers).
Moreover, compact formats help to reduce
food waste and make it easier for
consumers to store products at home.
Another company operating in workplace restaurants was able to identify hotspots of
waste from out - of - date
food, overproduction and
consumers throwing out uneaten
food.
«Our research shows that reducing
food waste is top of mind for
consumers.
In total, for every # 1 ($ 1.22) the boroughs invested to cut household
food waste,
consumers saved # 84 ($ 102) and the boroughs # 8 ($ 10) from avoided
food waste disposal costs.
«The prevention of
food waste can be positioned not only as a good way for
consumers to save money, but also as a way to work toward reversing the growing
food waste trend through conscious consumption.»
In 2015, The
Consumer Goods Forum, which represents more than 400 of the world's largest retailers and manufacturers from 70 countries, adopted a resolution for its members to reduce
food waste from their operations by 50 percent by 2025, with baselines and progress to be measured using the FLW Standard.
Packaging is known to protect
food from transit through consumption, preserve
food for a longer shelf life and enable single - serving meals that reduce
consumer waste.
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We also work with our customers to help educate
consumers on how to avoid
waste and prevent
food from spoiling.
Innovation in packaging can ensure that
food is not
wasted and that
consumers get quality
food without compromise.
WILMINGTON, Del., June 14, 2016 — Elevating consciousness in
consumer choice, reducing
food waste, feeding the world, advancing sustainability and facilitating technology transfer are just a few of the global challenges that innovative packaging can address, said judges of the 28th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation.
As a result, major
food businesses and corporate interest groups (including The
Consumer Goods Forum) have made commitments targeting
food waste.
Likewise, Jeff Schuetz, staff vice president of Global Technology
Consumer Packaging at Sonoco, said, «One of the biggest ways that packaging can address some of the challenges is dealing with
food waste.
Recent surveys conducted in the U.S. show that in the
food and beverage sector, the most important packaging features to
consumers were freshness, taste, clarity, convenience, safety, and
waste reduction.
These include
consumer education, investment in
waste treatment infrastructure,
waste diversion from the retail and commercial sector,
food collection for redistribution, and research into high value uses for
food waste.
A Better Value In today's economy,
consumers are more reluctant to
waste food.
In contrast, Western industrialized nations such as Germany experience
food waste predominantly at the end of the
food value chain — especially in
consumers» homes.
WILMINGTON, Del., May 19, 2015 — In a world where many cost - conscious
consumers buy
food in bulk, the ability to confidently re-close the package to keep
food fresh is critical to prevent
food waste.
A number of research organisations have been progressing work on better understanding where
food is
wasted on farm to the
consumer, and developing approaches that could be adopted to reduce or repurpose
food waste.
«Before
food even reaches a
consumer, we focus on reducing the amount of
food waste being generated during the production processes, through standard operating activities at every stage from planning to post analysis,» says Kathleen Cacciola, Senior Director for Environmental Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility.
The suppliers, who represent over # 17bn worth of Tesco sales, will publish
food waste data for their own operations within 12 months, and have committed to take the steps needed to reduce
food waste in their supply chain as well as innovating to make it easier for
consumers to reduce
waste in their homes.