Labour shortfall leading to ‘catastrophic’ food waste
The Financial Times reports that labour shortages have resulted in “catastrophic” food waste and placed huge quantities of further crops ...
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Which? says more data needed to measure UK supermarket sustainability
A comprehensive Which? study has assessed the impact of UK supermarkets across greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, plastic use and food ...
IKEA’s food impact measured – up to a point – in sustainability report
Given that it reportedly sells one billion meatballs a year, IKEA’s food impact is significant. Describing itself as one of ...
Soil degradation costs the UK £1.2 billion each year
The biggest medium to long term risk to local food production is from climate change and other environmental pressures, according ...
Close to half the calories produced in America go uneaten
Americans are wasting enough food for 150 million people a year – more than four times the country's need, as ...
Inside food’s new Silicon Valley
That Financial Times reports that Copenhagen is now considered the epicentre of food. And a new movement is brewing where ...
Rankin joins activists as COP26 ignores food waste
Food waste emits around 10 per cent of all greenhouse emissions. If it was a country, it would be the ...
Saving uneaten food can help the climate
The BBC reports that twins Shirley and Annie Zhu were 15 when in 2017 they began collecting unsold food from ...
Brexit: Labour shortage means food thrown away
The BBC says one of the country's biggest vegetable producers is losing thousands of pounds a week and having to ...
Charities call for ‘Amazon anti-waste law’
The Guardian reports that charities have written to the prime minister calling for a new anti-waste, or “Amazon law”, to ...
Free, prior and informed consent required as clean energy threatens Indigenous Peoples
A new coalition of Indigenous Peoples is calling for free, prior and informed consent to be negotiated without exception as...
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