Tag Archives: food waste

Today, on World Refrigeration Day, the Cold Chain Federation has published a new report demonstrating the critical importance of the cold chain to UK food supply, food safety and reducing food waste. The Cold Chain details how the industry is integral to the food chain, from farm to fork. It …

Organic waste and Waste-to-Energy technology specialist Tidy Planet has partnered with shredding expert UNTHA UK, to supply an industrial-scale solution for a new multi-million-pound Integrated Waste Management Facility (IWMF) at a gas pipeline expansion project in Indonesia. Macclesfield-headquartered Tidy Planet has previously worked on a variety of composting projects in …

Philip Simpson, commercial director at the UK’s leading food waste recycler, ReFood, welcomes the idea and outlines his views on the issue. There’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that we need to tackle the issue of food waste, and quickly! After all, wasting more than 14 million tonnes of food …

Restaurant, cafe and bar owners no longer have any excuses when it comes to the adoption of food waste reduction strategies. That is the clear message from Philip Simpson, commercial director of ReFood. In the light of research released by Champions 12.3*, a campaign group with the aim of halving …

Recently DEFRA launched its long-awaited Resources and Waste Strategy – an ambitious policy paper guiding England’s national approach to embrace a circular economy. Commenting on the report’s commitments to minimising food waste, Philip Simpson, commercial director at ReFood, provided the following analysis. “DEFRA’s Resources and Waste Strategy has been positioned …

ReFood is calling on households to join the fight against festive food waste, after research from the Food Standard Agency revealed that we throw away 34,000 tonnes of food on Christmas day alone. “We like to let our hair down and loosen our buckles over Christmas, but we also need …

Ronan Keane, the winner of ReFood pioneering waste management scholarship programme – Sustainable Visionaries – has graduated from Huddersfield University with a first class honours degree in Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Awarded in July 2015, following a comprehensive judging process, the industry-first scholarship saw Ronan compete against undergraduates from …

Leading waste services provider, Biffa, is creating a network of strategic food waste transfer stations across the UK, as it continues to lead the market in anaerobic digestion innovation. Biffa is making a £1.5m investment into four new food waste transfer stations across the UK, which will be used to …