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Albert Heijn Tests New Initiative To Reduce Food Waste

Dutch retailer Albert Heijn has launched a trial aimed at reducing food waste in 10 Albert Heijn stores in the Rotterdam region called ‘Bread of Yesterday’. The trial will see the...

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Average family wastes £800 of food annually, warns Tesco

A Tesco study has revealed the average British family wastes approximately £800 of edible food a year, prompting a sustainability partnership between the grocer and Unilever. The study also showed...

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Asda rolls out Whywaste tech to reduce food waste

Asda has partnered with digital company Whywaste in a bid to reduce food waste in stores via an app staff members can use. The digital date checking technology is designed...

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Far more food is thrown out in the world than previously thought

Previous research has all underestimated the amount of food thrown away, according to Dutch researchers, every person in the world has 500 calories of wasted food a day. If that...

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Lidl Germany Introduces Food Waste ‘Rescue Bags’

Lidl is aiming to reduce food waste across its stores with the introduction of ‘rescue bags’, consisting of imperfect fruit and vegetables that would normally be thrown out. The retailer...

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A collaboration turns food waste into bioplastic for cosmetics

In the US, food waste takes up more space in landfills than anything else. And a significant proportion of this waste happens even before it even reaches households. Now, a...

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UK supermarkets create 200,000 tonnes of food waste

Supermarkets have come under fire for wasting up to 200,000 tonnes of food after restricting which suppliers can access the surplus, food distribution charities have revealed. Independent charities under the...

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Checkpoint Unveils RFreshID To Help Retailers Fight Food Waste

Checkpoint Systems’ new RFreshID fresh food solution enables retailers to reduce food waste and improve inventory visibility. RFreshID uses RFID technology to help stores manage and rotate stock efficiently by...

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Electronic tags nudge people to avoid food waste

No matter how much we try to avoid it, we have all had the experience of finding food at the back of the fridge that spoiled before we could eat...

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Italy’s Gruppo Megamark Participates In Food Waste Reduction Pilot

Italian regional grocery retailer Gruppo Megamark is participating in ShareFood – a pilot project aimed at reducing food waste. The project supports the creation of innovative solutions to specific problems...

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Malaysia, Israel, Greece Produce Most Food Waste On A Per-Capita Basis, Study Finds

Malaysia, Israel and Greece produce the most food waste on a per capita basis, a new study by Bosch has found, using data from the UNEP Food Waste Index Report....

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Meny: 34 percent less bread wasted

In the past 6 months Norwegian retail chain Meny has cut down on food waste generated from bread by 34 percent. The retail chain hopes to save the equivalent of...

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Carrefour Sells Loose Eggs To Reduce Food Waste

French retailer Carrefour is selling loose eggs at all hypermarkets in a bid to save around 3.5 million eggs from being wasted annually. The company also plans to launch the initiative in...

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Norway’s Meny Cuts Food Waste From Bread By 34%

In the past six months, Norwegian retail chain Meny has achieved an overall 34% reduction in food waste generated from bread. The retail chain hopes to prevent the equivalent of...

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Food waste piles up as Britain faces farming labor shortages, planting scaled down for 2022

Unprecedented labor shortages in the UK over recent months have led to endemic food waste, as crops have been left to rot in the fields. As a result, British fruit...

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SPAR Saves One Million Meals With Too Good To Go

SPAR has announced that it has saved one million meals from being wasted across the world through its global partnership with Too Good To Go. The retailer noted that the ‘significant...

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Scientists In Singapore Transform Fruit Leftovers Into Antibacterial Bandages

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore are tackling food waste by turning discarded durian husks into antibacterial gel bandages. The process extracts cellulose powder from the fruit’s husks after they...

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Kesko To Launch Mulled Wine Made From Discarded Apples

Finland’s Kesko is to launch mulled wine (glögi) made with discarded raw materials that would otherwise end up in waste. The product is designed on the lines of Hyvis juice,...

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Tesco, OLIO Partnership Saves Millions Of Meals From Wastage

A partnership between Tesco and food sharing app OLIO in the UK has saved more than five million meals from wastage in the past year, the retailer has said. In August...

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Solar-powered refrigerators to cut food spoilage in developing countries

Nigerian invention NColdHubs is the first refrigeration system designed specifically for off-grid areas. The design employs rooftop solar panels that can generate enough electricity to power the units in all...

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Food waste collected from businesses is turned into energy

Startup StormFisher has developed a business model that is win-win for everyone involved. The company collects food waste from restaurants, grocery stores and other sources, and puts it through a process called anaerobic...

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M&S Introduces 25p Banana Bundles To Reduce Food Waste

UK retailer Marks & Spencer has introduced a new banana waste reduction scheme across all stores across England. The scheme allows customers to take home a cardboard bag of extra ripe bananas...

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(HU) A Too Good To Go-val lépett partnerségre a Coop Svájc

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Fraunhofer Institute fights food waste through active packaging innovation project

Fraunhofer Institute’s Process Engineering and Packaging IVV division is reporting progress in its international project to develop packaging solutions effective against food waste. Food retailers discard up to half of...

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(HU) 8900 tonna élelmiszert dobtak ki a britek a húsvéti túlvásárlást követően

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Merkur trials new technology to fight food waste

REWE Group member Austrian retailer Merkur is testing a new anti-food waste technology in several stores. The ‘Smart-Shelf’ technology enables the automatic production of baked goods when the shelf senses that stocks...

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Purina targets food waste by using surplus brewery grains in dog treat pilot

Purina today launches a new dog treat formulated with nutritious surplus grains from breweries. By upcycling grains that might otherwise be left to spoil, Purina is able to reduce food...

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Merkur Tests New Technology To Counter Food Waste

Austrian retailer Merkur is trialling a new anti-food waste technology in a number of its stores. The chain, which is part of the REWE Group, is implementing the ‘Smart-Shelf’ technology...

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K Group rolls out juices made of discarded fruits and vegetables

Finland’s K Group has joined forces with Thrsty to manufacture juices out of edible but discarded fruit, vegetables and berries in order to reduce food waste. Fruit and vegetables are discarded because...

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Contronics Awarded EU Prize For Reducing Food Waste

Contronics Dry Misting has received an award from the European Commission for its research project ‘Fresh Demo’. With this EU funded project, Contronics has proven that its Dry Misting technology...

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