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Merkur Tests New Technology To Counter Food Waste
Date: 2021-01-28 08:50:27
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
Date: 2020-11-01 21:31:09
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
Date: 2020-10-16 08:30:26
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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M&S Expands Project To Convert Surplus Baguettes To Garlic Bread
Date: 2020-10-05 08:30:19
UK retailer Marks & Spencer has announced that it is extending its initiative to turn unsold fresh bakery loaves into frozen garlic bread to 200 stores as part of its...
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Tesco asks customers to weigh their food bins
Date: 2020-10-01 13:38:53
Coupling up with Hubbabb, Tesco launches a 6 week trial project aimed to make British households reduce the food waste of 6.6 million tons they produce a year. Shoppers are...
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Nébih: the amount of food waste in Hungary decreased by 4 percent between 2016 and 2019
Date: 2020-09-29 11:22:20
In Hungary, the amount of food waste decreased by 4% between 2016 and 2019, as according to the food waste survey conducted with the involvement of 165 households at the...
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Continente Implements Measures To Curb Food Waste
Date: 2020-08-06 08:30:50
Portuguese retailer Continente has introduced five-kilogram boxes of fruit and vegetables that are close to their optimum consumption point at €0.50 € per kilogram. The ‘Zer0% Desperdício’ boxes aim to...
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The business impacts of sustainability
Date: 2020-03-15 14:35:01
Sustainable business operations don’t only have environmental, but also financial and marketing advantages. A market survey conducted by the Responsible Gastro Hero Foundation in 2018 revealed: more than 50 percent...
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Rewe Group Introduces Avocado Coating To Extend Shelf Life
Date: 2020-01-29 08:50:57
Rewe Group has announced it is testing a new fructose-based coating on its avocados, which it says can increase the shelf life of said products by eight days. The group...
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Aldi Announces Plan To Sell Blemished Apples
Date: 2019-12-17 08:30:52
Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd have announced plans to sell blemished apples across all outlets to sensitise consumers about food waste and help farmers minimise losses on their produce. The...
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Innovation and sustainability are the keywords in the FMCG market
Date: 2019-11-18 14:01:14
KNK PR & Média and Magyar Termék Nonprofit Kft. organised the Agóra conference in the Etyek Film Park. In his keynote speech Róbert Zsigó, secretary of state responsible for food...
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Four ways retailers are reducing food waste
Date: 2019-10-28 08:10:32
Retailers globally are launching campaigns to become more sustainable. One of the main initiatives being adopted is seeing them target food waste. We looked at four initiative ways retailers are...
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Metro invests in Swedish company Matsmart
Date: 2019-10-20 14:09:42
Metro AG has announced that its investment fund LeadX Capital Partners invested in Matsmart, a Swedish online business specialising in food waste reduction. Matsmart buys surplus production and overstocks from companies...
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Nébih guides for cutting food waste
Date: 2019-09-16 11:24:02
Four working groups of the No Leftover programme of the National Food Chain Safety Office (NÉBIH) have compiled guidance documents that can help in preventing the production of food waste...
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ICA plans to halve its food waste by 2025
Date: 2019-05-07 11:10:27
The Swedish grocer ICA Gruppen has set itself a new goal regarding food waste. Essentially, it plans to cut food waste by half from its warehouses and stores in Sweden...
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SPAR campaigns against food waste in hypermarkets
Date: 2019-01-31 15:06:41
SPAR Hungary and Bay Zoltán Applied Research Public Benefit Nonprofit Kft. are calling shoppers’ attention to better planned and more economical food usage. SPAR’s head of communications Márk Maczelka told:...
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Magazine: Waste made useful by recycling
Date: 2019-01-23 07:58:01
According to Norbert Höflinger, strategy director at HWD Recycling Kft., European waste processing companies are still unable to process the waste that got stuck on the continent after China’s waste...
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Tesco ditches best before dates
Date: 2018-11-20 17:04:19
In order to reduce food waste, Tesco removes the best before date from more than 100 fruits and vegetables. According to a recent survey, 69 percent of shoppers agree with...
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New store concept from Delhaize
Date: 2018-11-20 13:17:00
Delhaize launched a new concept supermarket: there is a so-called ‘quick route’ and in the Fresh Atelier fresh ready-to-eat meals are available. The new store is the outcome of a...
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Tesco doesn’t reject fruits and vegetables that don’t look so good
Date: 2018-10-15 16:41:39
It was on 24 January 2017 that Tesco started selling so-called Perfectly Imperfect fruits and vegetables: the retailer also purchases those fruits and vegetables from suppliers which formerly didn’t meet...
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Food waste should be reduced
Date: 2018-10-09 11:33:13
Food waste should be reduced, Hungary is on a good track to fight against the food waste in households – the Minister of State of the Ministry of Agriculture, responsible...
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FM: 1.8 million tonnes of food waste are generated annually in Hungary every year
Date: 2017-11-03 11:50:29
About 1.8 million tons, about 68 kilograms per capita food waste is generated annually in Hungary, which would be enough to feed 400-450 thousand people in need – MTI informed...
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Tesco: What is measurable can be handled!
Date: 2017-09-21 11:20:59
Tesco Europe has published its report on the amount of food surplus and waste generated during its operation for the financial year of 2016/2017. The chain of stores first published...
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Waste management: an obligation that has turned into a value
Date: 2017-07-21 09:51:23
Nowadays it is trendy for companies to be green, but in addition to this changes in legislation have also contributed to making firms manage their waste in a more conscious...
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The EU is fighting against food waste
Date: 2017-04-19 11:30:03
By 2030, the European Parliament wants to reduce the amount of food waste to the half of the current volume – Világgazdaság Online wrote. The report of the European Parliament’s...
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Every year, we throw 100 billion HUF worth food away
Date: 2016-11-18 11:10:50
The Hungarian households throw 100 billion HUF worth unused and uneaten food away – theMinister of State of the Ministry of Agriculture (FM) said on Friday in Budapest, at a...
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NÉBIH can reduce the waste of food from EU funds
Date: 2016-11-03 11:28:48
The European Committee supports the implementation of environmentally friendly projects from more than 220 million euros. The National Food Chain Safety Office (NÉBIH) receives 1 million euros funding to implement...
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The amount of food waste in Hungary is about 1.8 million tons annually
Date: 2016-10-11 11:15:33
In Hungary about 1.8 million tons of food ends up as waste, approximately one-quarter in the households – the Minister of State of the Ministry of Agriculture (FM), responsible for...
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The effects of climate change could be reduced by decreasing food waste
Date: 2016-04-11 11:33:24
Reducing food waste around the world would help curb emissions of planet-warming gases, lessening some of the impacts of climate change such as more extreme weather and rising seas, scientists...
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